Human communication is seen as a very complex reality. Bronislaw Malinowski is the one who identifies the phatic function of language as fundamental for understanding the communication principles. Among the first conclusions drawn from his observations Malinowski states that language is used to perform social functions; in other words, social relationships and interaction were geared to the use of linguistic expressions. One of such functions consists of what he called fatic communion. Language is used to maintain fatic communion – a feeling of belonging to a community. Fatic communion implies the maintenance of a sense of community, of solidarity with other members of the group, of a particular status within the hierarchies of the group, and at the same time a feeling of accepting others and being oneself accepted by others. The present article tries to identify the way „fatic communion” works within literary discourse, especially within censored literary text that are supposed to make use of extra means in order to communicate with its reader.