sentences:  A seminal event in the writer's life and career occurred in 1977, when he openly rallied with dissident politics.That year, inspired by the "Charter 77" movement in Communist Czechoslovakia, Romanian novelist Paul Goma drafted a collective petition critical of Ceauşescu's cultural and social policies in the post-July Theses era.While Goma was being subjected to an inquiry by the Securitate, Negoiţescu signed an open letter displaying his solidarity with the initiative, and openly rallied with various other forms of protest.