SYMBOLIC ARCHES AND METAMORPHOSES IN THE AVATARS OF TLA PHARAOH BY MIHAI EMINESCU
SYMBOLIC ARCHES AND METAMORPHOSES IN THE AVATARS OF TLA PHARAOH BY MIHAI EMINESCU

Summary/Abstract: Symbolic arches and metamorphoses in The Avatars of Tlà Pharaoh by Mihai Eminescu. Our analytical sketch aims at the thanatic metamorphosis process from the perspective of the arche’s symbol in The Avatars of Tlà Pharaoh by Mihai Eminescu, a posthumous romantic short story in which the narrator’s perspective partially identifies itself with the mythic-symbolic reality and totally identifies itself with the textual reality. Tlà represents a new beginning in his existential cycle, but at the same time, he is the first dead from the metamorphosis circuit, that aims at remembering and identifying the ego with the archetype. For the Tlà pharaoh’s avatars, the living of metamorphosis is also equivalent with an antiphrasis of death, that magnifies in an unbearable way the illusion of human eternity. This way, death transforms itself in a transitory awakening in life’s nightmare, by the means of visionary sleep, of intuitive madness or revelatory catalepsy.

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