ZOGRU – THE INITIATING JOURNEY
ZOGRU – THE INITIATING JOURNEY

Summary/Abstract: The author's novel, Doina Rusti, Zogru, is a postmodern novel, with the "poor" story, which deconstructs the vampire myth of romantic literature, presenting it in a humanized hypostasis, subjected to human feelings: love, doubt, jealousy, friendship, hatred, envy . Zogru must be read as a novel of initiation, through the Eros-Thanatos trio, a journey. All these non-random encounters during his journey give Zogru the knowledge of human nature. Regardless of the century and the year, people are guided by the same instincts, Eros and Thanatos being the ones linking centuries between them. In the novel appears the essence - appearance game: Mihnea, a noble, has a despicable character, and the vampire Zogru is capable of empathy towards a helpless being and a judicial spirit. Irony is present as a form of masked attack on the social reality. In the epicenter of episodes remembered by Zogru, the lecturer finds acid arrows against some human typologies of the time. In this context, in which Zogru plays the role of destiny for all those encountered in his long journey, man is reduced to the condition of a puppet, incapable of leading his own existential route. So the book can also be read in the sense that the destiny is like a uroborous serpent, swallowing its tail, always creating cyclicality.

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