REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FANTASTIC HUMAN IN VOICULESCU’S STORIES
REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FANTASTIC HUMAN IN VOICULESCU’S STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Voiculescu proves a dilettantism of the spirit being too easily seduced by any new experience. The heroes of narratives that are part of the theme of nature are mostly strange characters, fantastic or animal characters. They are an original creation of the writer, a hybrid of the fusion of the primitive conception of the totem with the archetype philosophy. The fantastic man is metamorphosed in the fish man, the bear man, the wolf man, in any primordial animal form that fuses perfectly with the human being, preserving in its being a primordial vital principle passed from generation to generation from the sacred animal. Through the character of the fantastic man, the writer calls for meditation on the origin of human life and on the relationship between the kingdoms. The process of rational human expansion requires the nature to isolate itself, to restrict its area, and, last but not least, to defend itself by using all means at its disposal. As an immediate effect, we can identify two extreme human types in Voiculescu's stories: the primordial individual kept in the natural laboratory of archaic spaces, being either aquatic or mountainous, identified in the person of the fantastic character against the backdrop of modern civilization, and the superior human person, intuition and problem origin.

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