Anca Dumitru, Corporalitate şi nihilism în proza lui Gheorghe Crăciun
Corporality and Nihilism in Gheorghe Crăciun’s Prose
The paper explores the relation between corporality and nihilism in Gheorghe Crăciun’s prose. As a landmark of his work, the binary mechanism of corporality and writing implicitly relates to the idea of nihilism which pervades through Crăciun’s worldview. The intricate and insecure balance between the body and the text, as two essential existential sequences, consists in a continuous delusive pursuit of gaining new manifestations. While the body seems to defy description, it never ceases to inhabit the text. The text struggles to achieve its own corporality, but it fails, as it persists to exist in its imponderable shape. The permanent confrontation between the body and the text is grounded on the idea of nihilism as chance1, a ceaseless effort of redefining and reevaluating the world.
Keywords: corporality, nihilism, writing, body, senses
- Texte literare
Crăciun, Gheorghe, Frumoasa fără corp / The Beauty Without a Body, ed.Cartea Românească, 1993 (a).
Idem, Mecanica fluidului.Culegere de lecţii introductive cu exemple, definiţii, întrebări şi 36 de figuri incluse în text / The Mechanics of the Fluid. A Collection of Introductory Lessons with Examples, Definitions, Questions, and 36 Figures Included in the Text, ed. Cartier, București, 1993 (b).
Idem, Trupul ştie mai mult. Fals jurnal la Pupa
Russa(1993-2000) / The Body Knows More. A Fake Diary to Pupa Russa (1993-2000), ed, Paralela 45, Pitești, 2006.
- Texte critice și teoretice
Andru, V. art. „Proză și modernitate” / „Prose and Modernity”, in Competiția continuă. Generația ‚80 în texte teoretice / The Competition Continues. Generation 80 in Theoretical Texts, Crăciun, Gheorghe (coord.), ed. Paralela 45, 1999.
Crăciun, Gheorghe „Trup și literă” / „Body and Letter”, in Competiția continuă. Generația ‚80 în texte teoretice / The Competition Continues. Generation 80 in Theoretical Texts, Crăciun, Gheorghe (coord.), Pitești, ed. Paralela 45, 1999.
Culianu, I.P. „A Corpus for the Body”, in The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 63, No. 1, Academic Journal Offprint, (Mar. 1991).
Vattimo, Gianni, Sfârşitul modernităţii / The End of Modernity, ed. Pontica, Constanţa, 1993.
