Interior de Constantin Fântâneru – approche intertextuelle
Interior by Constantin Fântâneru – Inter-Textual Approach

Summary/Abstract: Interior [Inside], Constantin Fântâneru’s journal-novel, remainsan important testimony of the 30’s “authenticity” literature and of "thebizarre adventures of being human"1. The narrative charts the anxiety of Călin Adam’s, i.e. the protagonist’s, disjointed consciousness. Theprotagonist tries to accept the absurdity of existence and to bridge thewidening gaps between reality and his mental representation of it.Constantin Fântâneru’s inter-textual perspective reveals possible similaritieswith Knut Hamsun, Max Blecher, Mircea Eliade and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.The Norwegian writer’s influence on the novel Hunger resides in thepresence of para-sensory acuity and behavioral incoherence of theprotagonist, from which his social marginality derived. Max Blecher’s novelÎntâmplări în irealitatea imediată [Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality]reveals the same "unreality", a universe in which the character-narratorgradually immersed himself. In Romanul adolescentului miop [Novel of theNearsighted Adolescent], Mircea Eliade captures the same impetuous spiritof adolescence while charting the process of becoming a teenager. CălinAdam’s likeness to Goliadkin, the Dostoyevskyan character, is highlightedvia the phenomenon of splitting, i. e. man’s sad fate in a merciless andindifferent society. In spite of these similarities with Romanian topoi,Interior boasts an original view in that the protagonist discovers the"transsubstantiation", a process which involves a transfer of energy betweenthe material universe and the human being that saves him and helps himfind a meaning in his life.

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