Dumitru Ţepeneag sau despre tentaţia evadării
Dumitru Ţepeneag or on the Temptation of Escaping

Summary/Abstract: Built as a large narrative "score", Dumitru Tepeneag`s novel, Vain Art of the Fugue, turns a writing whose meaning must be sought in other "stave". The subject of the novel is lacking, the characters are devoid of individuality, they are winding through the micro stories which permanently change and which are reproduced on the art of counterpoint. There is no chronology in the stories, everything works according to an automatism that literary criticism attributed to the author`s adherence to delirium. The dissolution of both the narrative and the subject, the characters who mix up to identity, the absurd situations, the repetitions or the stereotypes of the language and images are the support for a literary experiment that is part of a rebellious spirit, closer to the literary vanguardism. Why Vain Art of the Fugue? The title of the 1973 French edition of the novel, ”Arpieges”, proves a connection with the music, but the strings that vibrate in the novel do not belong to any musical instrument, but to the main character`s inner psychological springs. Vain Art of the Fugue becomes a metaphorical expression of individual existence, the obsession that takes over and dominates the individual`s immediate universe. World appears as a huge portable, as a fugue whose themes always comes back in mind. Finally, the entire narrative construction meets the same stave, singing the same theme, the characters are just props of the narrative, devoid of individuality. Beyond the story, the novel exploits a reality seen through the eyes of the characters, voices reduced to the same authorial consciousness that unifies the narrative content.

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