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INTERIOR DE CONSTANTIN FANTANERU–APPROCHE INTERTEXTUELLE

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ȚEBREAN P.-G.

Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

2011

vol. 3

41-56

Interior [Inside], Constantin Fântâneru’s journal-novel, remains an important testimony of the 30’s “authenticity” literature and of "the bizarre adventure of being human" (Cf. « bizara aventură de a fi om », in M. Blecher, Inimi cicatrizate. Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată, Ed. MondoRo, Bucureşti, 2010, p. 166; translation mine). The narrative charts the anxiety of Călin Adam’s, i.e. the protagonist’s, disjointed consciousness. The protagonist tries to accept the absurdity of existence and to bridge the widening gaps between reality and his mental representation of it. Constantin Fântâneru’s inter-textual perspective reveals possible similarities with Knut Hamsun, Max Blecher, Mircea Eliade and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Norwegian writer’s influence on the novel Hunger resides in the presence of para-sensory acuity and behavioral incoherence of the protagonist, from which his social marginality derived. Max Blecher’s novel Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată [Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality] reveals the same "unreality", a universe in which the character-narrator gradually immersed himself. In Romanul adolescentului miop [Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent], Mircea Eliade captures the same impetuous spirit of adolescence while charting the process of becoming a teenager. Călin Adam’s likeness to Goliadkin, the Dostoyevskyan character, is highlighted via the phenomenon of splitting, i. e. man’s sad fate in a merciless and indifferent 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 between the material universe and the human being that saves him and helps him find a meaning in his life.

The Earthly Boundaries of Eternity

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Kubicki R.

Dialogue and Universalism

2018

issue 1

229-241

While there are many stories of man, one moment seems to recur in all of them. This is the belief that we need to be able, and want, to look in the mirror of something that is qualitatively larger than us. This is the intention of the tradition whose philosophic patron is Plato. This need for unreality—the need for another world—presumably manifests itself in every area of human activity. One can therefore talk about a specific need for unreality that every real life satiates itself with. I provide examples of this need: science, religion, love, past and future. In the light of eternal life, we would be continually beset by the values for which we would be obliged to sacrifice our lives. In the light of earthly life, such values are inconceivably less frequent. We learn the difficult art of living in a consumer world where we do not have to die.

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1 Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies

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INTERIOR DE CONSTANTIN FANTANERU–APPROCHE INTERTEXTUELLE

The Earthly Boundaries of Eternity