ONEIRIC SYMBOLS IN MIRCEA CARTARESCU’S TRAVESTI
ONEIRIC SYMBOLS IN MIRCEA CARTARESCU’S TRAVESTI

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to reveal the main symbols which come into notice when we are reading Mircea Cartarescu’s novel, entitled Travesti. The character himself tries to understand the meaning of his dreams or, better said, nightmairs, which seem to be like signs stemmed from unconscious. Transcribing every detail of his dreams, Victor has the belief that can find the real cause of his mental imbalance. The anguish of the character translates bizzare images, crystalized around some obsessive symbols. These symbols connote disguised expressions of inner sexual desire. Obscure emotions invade Victor’s oneiric existence, so that the character manages to escape his interior traps

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