Transgressive Strategies in M. Blecher’s Prose Cover Image

Strategii transgresive în proza lui M. Blecher
Transgressive Strategies in M. Blecher’s Prose

Author(s): Irina Dincă
Subject(s): Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: M. Blecher; transgressive poetics; transgressive strategies; levels of perception; expanded reality

Summary/Abstract: This paper will focus on the way the transgressive vision of M. Blecher is configured both in his theoretical approach from his programmatic essays and in his prose – Întâmplări în irealitatea imediată [Adventures in Immediate Irreality], Inimi cicatrizate [Scarred Hearts] and Vizuina luminată [The Lit-Up Burrow]. Beyond the fragmentary appearance of M. Blecher’s work, a series of recurrent patterns and imaginative strategies can be discovered, forming the nucleus of a transgressive vision. Firstly, we will follow the synthetic considerations which can be found in some articles published by M. Blecher in 1935, including Care este esenţa poeziei? [What is the Essence of Poetry?] and Între imaginaţie şi experienţă [Between Imagination and Experience], which reveal the principles of his transgressive poetics. M. Blecher’s paradoxical lucidity results in the flexibility of logical structures, transgressing the classical principles of Aristotelian logics, especially by accepting the dynamic equilibrium of the included middle. In the same way in which the mind transgresses the constrictive limits of rationality, the functions of the perception are enlarged and sharpened, opening towards a more subtle and enriched (ir)reality, which surpasses the binary scheme of the real vs. the unreal. The hermeneutical approach follows the mechanisms that produce the transgression of the immediate reality in M. Blecher’s prose, revealing an expanded reality, with multiple levels, which creates the effects of overlapped photos.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 127-134
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian