STYLISTIC RECURRENCE IN GIB I. MIHĂESCU’ SHORT STORIES
STYLISTIC RECURRENCE IN GIB I. MIHĂESCU’ SHORT STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Gib I. Mihăescu concentrated his creative force on a mental disorder which is born unconsciously, thus managing to transmit it literarily through an interesting and controversial artistic expression. His characters are the physical and psychological expression of various types of obsession. The tumult of the characters acquires relief in contrast to the elements of the quiet setting. Under the cover of the night, of terrifying solitude of a place full of "fantasy", the moon and the stars are masterfully captured, the cold and the blizzard stir up memories and exacerbate neurotic moods. He manages to create in most short stories an atmosphere of terror, anxiety and uncertainty, placing special emphasis on the outer frame, glacial and monochord, as a projection of the inner frame where the action takes place in reality. At the level of vocabulary, the oppressive atmosphere is translated by an abundance of superlative and hyperbolic expressions, by verbal constructions, epithets and comparisons. Everything appears exaggerated, sometimes slipping into triviality. In the Nature represented by Night, Cold, Ugliness, Desert, these elements that participate in soul crises seem to close archetypal valences. They do not only constitute an adequate framework, but they intervene in action as effects of delirium, of paroxysmal feelings. There is no short story that does not contain at least one term from the semantic field of anxiety. The most commonly used is the term "vision" and its synonyms: ghost, hallucination, phantom, strange appearance or adjectives such as strange, odd, terrible, sinister that refer to substantially identical moods.

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