DES REPRÉSENTATIONS DE LA RÉTICENCE ÉROTIQUE CHEZ G. M. ZAMFIRESCU ET FELIX ADERCA. LA PHYSIQUE ET LA MÉTAPHYSIQUE DE L’AMOUR
Representations of Erotic Reticence with G. M. ZAMFIRESCU and FELIX ADERCA. The Physical and Metaphysical of Love

Summary/Abstract: G. M. Zamfirescu's Nastasia and Felix Aderca's Nuţa are detached from parallel mirrors: the woman with a tragic destiny, a priori damned to existential failure, but who does not give in to resignation and does not accept the fate of the defeated. Even the death of the two, caused by suicide, is a dual sign: one of defeat, but also of victory. If means defeat not to reach your high existential ideal designed by your consciousness, it is a victory not to give in to the destiny that the heroines face with dignity and pride. On the other hand, Alina, the heroine of the ”God of love” represents an incarnation of the eternal feminine, she is the foul purity or virgin prostitute, the construction of character allowing many comparative associations with the heroines of G. M. Zamfirescu: Safta or Maro. The character's construction is based on reluctance. In it the opposites are united. Nastasia is the innocent - she lives a double delusional hope, one of social escape and one of absolute love. When she seems overcome by fate, when both ideals fall apart, she becomes the murderer. Her suicidal gesture kills.The metaphysical dyad is encountered neither in "Miss Nastasia", nor in "The Young Lady in Neptun Street", the heroines lose their adamatic partners under different circumstances. But the possibility of restoring the primordial unity is passed on to another generation of actors, because the myth of the eternal return involves a continuous series of erotic avatars. The physical impulse determines the metaphysical one, through anamnesis, and thus the human connection with the divine principle is restored.

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