THE TEMPTATION OF ANDROGYNY IN MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU’S WORK
THE TEMPTATION OF ANDROGYNY IN MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: This study proposes an analysis of the Mircea Cartarescu’modalities of including mythical echoes in his novel. A privileged place is occupied, in the cartarescian prose, by the androgynous being. Easily traceable throughout the fictional pages, the temptation of androgyny implies a double explanation: on the one hand, the deviant sexual taste of the post-modernist individual, inclined to the genetic inter-determination, trans-sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality and the travesty, and who is willing to embrace new revelational experiences. On the other hand, the Androgen can easily be considered as a synonym for the Everythingness which every one of the characters teds to achieve. Consequently, the sexual experience is regarded as a bridge connecting with the transcendent and the apocalypse.

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