„Individuarea” şi „diferenţierea” personajelor literare în romanele Hortensiei Papadat-Bengescu
The ‘Individuation’ and the ‘Differentiation’ of Literary Characters in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the author, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, individualizes both her masculine and feminine characters, through the dynamic of their corporality. The characters’ corporality is stylized (by different stylistic and rhetorical means), so that the descriptive fragments portraying the human body (in movement or static) confer a high esthetic sense to the entire narrative text. The ‘’individuation’’ and the ‘’singularization’’ of the characters is made through body styling attitude, apperceptive styles (the consciousness of near objects, of someone’s own body or of someone else’s body). There is a somatic relationship establishing between the character and his body, respectively someone else’s body: the characters perceive and are aware of their own body or of the other body. Stylized corporality estheticizes the narrative text, so that this process prevails in expense of the narrative. We shall study the attitudes, the expressions, the characters’ gestures and their manner of ‘’expressing’’, in a particular situation. The characters under discussion/analysis are: Mini, Nory, Lenora Hallipa, Doru Hallipa, Coca-Aimee, Mika-Le, Lică Trubadurul, doctor Walter, Maxenţiu. The underlying texts for our analysis are the first three novels of Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, from Hallipa cycle: Fecioarele despletite (1926), Concert din muzică de Bach (1927) şi Drumul ascuns (1932). What is the style of a character? and what does it consist of? These are the questions we shall try to answer allthrough this paper.

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