NARCISSIST REGRESSION AND THE FASCINATING MONSTER IN V. VOICULESCU’S SHORT STORIES
NARCISSIST REGRESSION AND THE FASCINATING MONSTER IN V. VOICULESCU’S SHORT STORIES
Author(s): Raluca Nicoleta ȘerbanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: narcissist regression; the fascinating monster/Leviathan; love/hatred dynamics;
Summary/Abstract: As analyzed in a previous paper, V. Voiculescu’s short stories recreate a strange universe, very close to Herman Melville’s fictional world. The most important similarity of the two is the heroes’ Narcissist regression towards a sub-human environment, namely towards the animal register, triggered by a similar fascination with water, water monsters and fishing. The conditions for such a change and for the subsequent identification, intermingling man-animal (big fish most of the times) are met and the Romanian author dwells extensively on this theme. In this paper, we shall look more closely at a few of Voiculescu’s heroes, involved in similar love/hatred relationships with fascinating monsters.
Journal: Synergies in Communication
- Issue Year: 1/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 172-179
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English