Ritualization and Neomithologism in Mircea Cartarescu’s Prose Cover Image

Ритуализации и неомитологизъм в прозата на Мирча Картареску
Ritualization and Neomithologism in Mircea Cartarescu’s Prose

Author(s): Ivan Stankov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Short Story, Romanian Literature
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Mircea Cartarescu; ritual; initiation; labyrinth; passage; mythological

Summary/Abstract: This text is an attempt to read Mircea Cartarescu’s prose as a systematic reproduction of archaic ritual-mythological practices, plots and characters: the walling up of shadows, rainmaking rituals, cosmogonic and eschatological reconstructions, crossing real and imagined labyrinths, levitation, all kinds of initiatic passages, the myth of twins, the myth of the androgyny etc.

  • Issue Year: 6/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 287-291
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English, Bulgarian