A measure of decomposition – about Jehan Calvus’s prose
The following study thoroughly examines an extremely peculiar work of an equally peculiar author – the strange and unique novel Bumgartes the IInd, written by the mysterious writer from Cluj who uses the pen-name Jehan Calvus. The author of the study compares the magic realism of Bumgartes the IInd with the variants of the same literary technique from the works of the well-known Romanian novelists A.E. Baconsky and Ştefan Bănulescu and of the famous Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. An important and significant parallel is also drawn with the works of Brancusi.
Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature, contemporary prose, Jehan Calvus, Bumgartes the IInd, magic realism, Ştefan Bănulescu, A. E. Baconsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez