MYTH, RITE AND SYMBOL IN CĂRTĂRESCU’S POSTMODERNIST TRAVESTI Cover Image

MIT, RIT ȘI SI MBOL ÎN TRAVESTI-UL POSTMODERNIST CĂRTĂRESCIAN
MYTH, RITE AND SYMBOL IN CĂRTĂRESCU’S POSTMODERNIST TRAVESTI

Author(s): Liliana Danciu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Aeternitas
Keywords: the double; Narcissus; androgynous; rite; initiation; hermaphrodite;

Summary/Abstract: This study seeks to capture the unlimited richness of the message of a small novel as Travesty, by Mircea Cărtărescu. By an adult who tries to understand the meaning of a strange experience of adolescence, the writer offers outstanding artistic quality pages, which challenge the imagination of any informed reader. I tried to interpret some elements of the alchemy writing in this novel, such as the double meaning in the ritual initiation of Budila, the magical value of some haunting symbol-metaphors, as the spider and the nymph, and the antagonism of the archetypal representations in the writer's imagination – the androgynous and the hermaphrodite. DOI: 10.29302/InImag.2015.6.8

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 105-120
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian
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