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Poetica „onirismului structural”
Poetics of “Structural Oneirism”

Author(s): Ovidiu Morar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: surrealism; avant-garde; dream; experimentalism;

Summary/Abstract: This approach tries to emphasize the similarities and differences between the poetics of Surrealism and that of the new Romanian avant-garde of the late sixties called “structural onirism”. The two leaders of this group, the poet Leonid Dimov and the novelist Dumitru Țepeneag, produced a series of literary manifestos in a few literary magazines of the time, in which they tried to build a coherent and original aesthetic program. The main ideas were the rational structure of the new literature and its dream-like atmosphere produced by a deliberate technique, characteristics which placed it in the category defined by Angelo Guglielmi in the late fifties as “experimentalism”. However, the dark dreamy atmosphere, the “convulsive beauty”, the programmatic incoherence of the narration in order to create the dream-like effect, the incompatibility of the associations, etc. are features that still link this new literature to older Surrealism.

  • Issue Year: XLII/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 145-158
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian