SCRIPTURAL AND IMAGISTIC IDENTITY
SCRIPTURAL AND IMAGISTIC IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Scriptural and Imagistic Identity The intellectual and body biography of Gheorghe Crăciun is recomposed in „Mecanica fluidului” from a permanent intertextual dialogue between the self-referential works, the diarist and essayist pages, personal drawings and photographs, and the quotations from the works of Unamuno, Roland Barthes, Michel Tournier, Gaston Bachelard , Gustave Flaubert, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Musil, Emil Cioran, etc. The author (re)discusses postmodern concepts such as intertextuality, body text, visual language, „the conflict between body and letter". Under these circumstances, his true identity coalesces from the valorization of the (often dramatic) relationship between the self and his scriptural image, a relationship reflected in confessions and reflections of metathetic value. Undoubtedly, in the matter of being, the textual representation of the body is included. The writing orders, clarifies, but in the reproduction of the self and the world is added a sense of insufficiency and limitations of language. In this context, photography or „writing with light" is a complement, an alternative solution to reveal the mystery of the person, without capturing his materiality. The identity portrait, rather fluid, seems to always reinvent itself as it is reconstituted from the pieces of a bizarre puzzle where the text and the visual image complement each other on the principle of communicating vessels. However honest and sincere are the intentions of the one who writes about the hypostases of the self, he is aware of the power of mystification of words, the danger of self-actualization. On the other hand, he knows that Bovarism is not only a language but also a photograph that recreates reality in a subjective manner.

• Details
• Contents