THE DREAM AS A METHOD OF ESCAPE IN THE NOVEL "BLINDING"
THE DREAM AS A METHOD OF ESCAPE IN THE NOVEL "BLINDING"

Summary/Abstract: Starting from obvious scientific knowledge, Mircea Cărtărescu, in his prose, uses the dream as a permanent conscious contact with the self, making the dream a timeless mechanism that can unconsciously bring him the experiences he needs to make, a writing of the self. Knowing the specific mechanisms of the dream helps him in the artificial construction of dreams, giving more authenticity, fantasy and unusualness to the works. In the novel ,,Orbitor’’ the dream acquires scientific nuances through which the unconscious of the protagonist is probed, in ,,Solenoid’’ scientific-experimental nuances, which makes the actions of the protagonists in the novel resemble the actions of the Romanian psychiatrist Nicolae Vaschide (inserted as a significant character in the novel) to treat dreams . , by using experimental psychology. In ,,Nostalgia’’, especially in the short story ,,REM’’and in ,,Melancholia’’, we meet both surrealist and romantic nuances, the stories getting lost in an unlocatable time and space bearing the signs of fairy tales and short stories . romances written by E.T.A. Hoffmann. The ,,Travesti’’ novel, which precedes and prepares the ,,Orbitor’’ novel, carries the same interest in probing the self, the dream ensuring the subliminal turns towards a self-repressed by the protagonist.

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