THE PROPER NAMES IN THE NOVELS OF GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN
THE PROPER NAMES IN THE NOVELS OF GHEORGHE CRĂCIUN

Summary/Abstract: This study refers to the regime of the proper names in the first three novels of the writer Gheorghe Crăciun, which make up a trilogy (even if not declared as such), in so far as characters, themes and modalities of expression migrate from one text to another: Acte originale, copii legalizate [Original Documents, Legalized Copies], Compunere cu paralele inegale [Composition with Uneven Parallels] and Frumoasa fără corp [Beauty without Body]. Although Crăciun is an author falling under the literature of the eighties, tributary to a postmodernist poetics, practicing an intertextual, metatextual, autoreferential and reflexive prose, the poetics from which the proper names come into existence eludes this paradigm and rather stems from one of his fetish writers, Radu Petrescu, to wit from a realistic perspective, of a relative discretion of the expressivity, void of the strong effects of an onomastics with visible semantism or with emphasized aesthetic relief. However, in some passages, these names have an intertextual or autoreferential function, which shows that the author’s postmodernist vision contaminates, even partially, this compartment of onomastics, seemingly insignificant, yet likely to offer rewarding reading keys and openings. Anyway, also at this level, of the names of characters, Gheorghe Crăciun proves to be a lucid, consistent author, of a refined intellectuality and withal of the utmost authenticity.

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