Lena Constante (1909-2005), writer of Romanian origin choose the French language to write her testimony in Romanian prisons between 1950 and 1957. Her experience, in a context of totalitarian oppression and unjust accusation, express in a cursory manner the political conditions in which the events occurred. However, the author develops a set of transgressive strategies linked to the verbal composition reflected in her autobiographical work L’évasion silencieuse. Mille trois jours seule dans les prisons roumaines (1990). Far from achieving happiness, makes her inner journey against the silence, the isolation and the imposed tortures. Keywords: Lena Constante; jail; silence; writing; French; transgression; release.
Alfaro Amieiro, Margarita. Lena Constante. Experiencia carcelaria y búsqueda de la palabra liberadora en lengua francesa. En: Quaderns de filologia. Estudis literaris, 2016, No. 21: 23
