Thématique fantomale et spectralisation du récit dans Biserica neagră d’Anatol E. Baconsky
PHANTOMATIC THEMATICS AND NARRATIVE SPECTRALIZATION IN BISERICA NEAGRĂ BY ANATOL E. BACONSKY

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the unifying theme of the revenant (the ghost, the spectre) and the process which we have called the spectralization of fiction in the work of the Romanian writer A. E. Baconsky. Does the relation function only at the thematic level? Or does the revenant also appear as the agent (or modalizer) of the spectralization of the narration? In our opinion, Anatol E. Baconsky’s Biserica neagră (The Black Church) exemplifies the theme of the revenant in its relation to the spectralization of the narrative. We shall demonstrate its importance in the creation of the atmosphere of strangeness that permeates the novel. In particular we shall analyze the categories of the crepuscular and the lugubrious in order to illustrate how a “realist” and diurnal isotopy is constantly doubled by a secret and nocturnal isotopy.

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