Eugen Barbu, arcanele recuperării alchimice. De la umbra care și-a pierdut eul, la cogitoul eului visător
Eugen Barbu, the arcana of the alchemic recovery. From the shadow that lost its ego, to the cogito of the dreamer ego

Summary/Abstract: This study aims at analysing the mechanisms of the myth, recovered as a literary method by the Romanian novel of the sixties, under the Communist regime and subjected to censorship. The case study tackles the three novels penned by Eugen Barbu: Groapa, Principele and Săptămâna nebunilor, in which we attempt to mythically reconstitute the rhythmic arcanes of the alchemic ritual: regressus ad inferos (Groapa), conniunctio (Princepele) and redemption through the word, albedo (Săptămâna nebunilor). It will be shown that no matter how hidden the mythical structures are or how degraded in their morphology they might be, they retain their soteriological functions, especially through the characters` life-saving reveries.

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