Matei Vişniec vs Ioan Groşan – afinităţi tematice
Matei Vişniec vs Ioan Groşan – Thematic Affinities

Summary/Abstract: In Vişniec’s theatre, mysterious entities get specific connotations linked to the changing power of illusion. The non-existent, but omnipresent, character from Three Nights With Madox keeps alive the other „heroes’” interest in something. The same happens in The Night Train, written by Ioan Groşan, where the level of speculations made by the two „inhabitants” of the railway station reaches burlesque quotations. The multiple connections that can be made between Groşan şi Vişniec lead to the conlusion that both writers, belonging to the eighties, were „contaminated” by the masters of the absurd aesthetics. The turmoil, the useless drifting, the species failure, the impotence of the self, they all appear in Vişniec’s plays and some of Groşan’s short stories (The Great Sadness, The Confession, The Isle). The compared analysis of the play Three Nights With Madox with the short story The Night Train brings to light a series of shared characteristics that send Ioan Groşan to the group of the writers of absurd literature where Matei Vişniec has already been tagged from his first plays. The postmodern manner of the text, the awaiting, the overexposed banality, the final suicidal intentions of the characters of both authors, all of them feed the idea of labeling both writers with the same aesthetic formula. In the view of Vişniec and Groşan, alienation has no cure and cannot be prevented.

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