HEGEMONIA BOVARISMULUI SAU MIZELE PACTULUI CRĂCIUN – FLAUBERT
THE HEGEMONY OF BOVARISM OR PACT'S STAKES CRĂCIUN – FLAUBERT

Summary/Abstract: As he publicly acknowledged, Gheorghe Crăciun intended to write a flaubertian novel, composing his Pupa russa as a response to the notorious Madame Bovary. In his opinion, the bovaric phenomenon is present where there can be detected ‘a certain form of insatiety towards life’. Considering Jules de Gaultier’s philosofical approach, the bovarism can be defined as ‘the power that has been given to man which allows him to percieve himself different than he really is’. Further more, the philosopher establishes two essential trajectories that derive from the human being: first of all, the individual’s genetical map, his hereditary predisposition, and, second of all, the image that the individual, confronted with the environmental influences and the exterior constraints, creats of himself, of what he wants/must become. Whenever a considerable distance can be detected between the two trajectories, the bovaric phenomenon is completely installed. Under these circumstances, the present paper intends to ‘calculate’ the main character’s bovaric index, analysing the differences between what the young Leontina Guran promisses to become and what she turns out to be, as an adult living in the carceral, mean, comunist world. Further more, it is challenging to notice that the bovaric phenomenon is also present at a superior level, that of the author. Insatieble towards life, as he is an intelectual male living in an insipid, opressive world, Gheorghe Crăciun pictures himself different than he really is, as a fictional, controversial woman, compensating therefore the unpalatability of reality with the flavour of literature.

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