BODY, LETTER AND ETERNAL FEMININE IN GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN’S PUPA RUSSA
BODY, LETTER AND ETERNAL FEMININE IN GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN’S PUPA RUSSA

Summary/Abstract: Gheorghe Crăciunřs novel Pupa Russa foreshadows an expressive evanescent, a Ŗtouchŗ of ineffable and diaphanous as the author searches for the "eternal feminine" but it also states the beginning of a new era : the hegemony of the body. In contemporary society, tributary to the supremacy of the object, the body becomes an "artifex" or, according to Jean Baudrillard "The most beautiful object of consumption." His study, The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures reveals that in the context of the consumerist society prevails the "absolute waresŗ and the Ŗobject-bodyŗ became the appanage of eroticism and sexuality. Baudrillard defines two body types: the fetish- body and the capital-body. In consequence, the ostentatious ex-putting of corporality lays in fetishization of the object-body and the capitalbody becomes an "investment". In contemporaneity, the body is no longer a reflection of the absolute but easy fleshing; the body becomes form, not paradigm. De-sacralization, sex dolls, artificial sexualisation, sexual deprivation means loss of symbolic function. Thus, the exacerbated fetishization of the body meant re-investing it with original function, but the effect is opposite: ŖWe glorify the body meanwhile its real possibilities atrophies and becomes more and more corseted.ŗ1Gheorghe Crăciun was the "writer" of the demetaphorized body that comes to life as long as it is narrated. In the context of postmodernism that advocates pansexuality, the author, through a conscious rhetoric, inquires about the sacredness of the body. His characters are not prisoners of an opaque body Ŕ suffocated by his own materiality and sexuality, as it might seem at first glance. They search for that specific glitter Ŕ the lost sacrality.

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