Gheorghe Crăciun. The Experiment and its chronotopical values
This study debates the idea of literary experiment in the first two novels of Gheorghe Crăciun, Acteoriginale/ copiilegalizate and Compunere cu paraleleinegale. The experiment practiced by Gheorghe Crăciun is mostly based on the reinterpretation of the Greek novel and also on the perpetuation of the love theme in the literary space and time. These two components, space and time, define what M. M. Bakhtin called “chronotope”. This study deals also with the fact that the chronotope is interconnected as being in a direct relationship with the experiment which is specific to Gheorghe Crăciun’s works. The experiment implies also a dialogic relation between instances as narrator, character or author.
Keywords: chronotope, dialogic imagination, surfiction, experiment, Gheorghe Crăciun.
1. Adrian Lăcătuş, Experimentul literar în proza românească postbelică şi contemporană. O perspectivă cognitivă şi comparată, Bucureşti, Editura Muzeului Naţional al Literaturii Române, Colecţia AULA MAGNA, 2013, p. 10.
2. Gheorghe Crăciun, Compunere cu paralele inegale, ed. a IIa, revăzută, Bucureşti, EdituraAlfa, 1999, p. 319.
3. „that kind of fiction that challenges the traditions that govern it; the kind of fiction that constantly renews our faith in man’s imagination and not in man’s distorted reality – that reveals man’s irrationality rather than man’s rationality. This I call SUR-FICTION. However, not because it imitates reality, but because it exposes the fictionality of reality.” în Raymond Federman, Surfiction: Fiction Now… And Tomorrow, Chicago, The Swallow Press, 1975.
4. M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination. Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, p. 103.
5. Gh. Crăciun, „Anexă la un ordin de lăsare la vatră”, Acte originale. Copii legalizate, ed. I, Bucureşti, Cartea Românească, 1982, p. 57.
6. Mihaela Ursa, Trupul unui scriitor – Gheorghe Crăciun, „Euresis. Cahiers roumains d’études littéraires et culturelles/ Romanian Journal of Litterary and Cultural Studies”, publicație a Institutului Cultural Român, vol. 1-4/ 2009, „Le postmodernisme roumain, alors et maintenant / RomanianPostmodernism, then and now”, http:// www.academia.edu/4902312/Trupul_unui_scriitor_-_ Gheorghe_Cr%C4%83ciunaccesat la 16.04.2015, 11.40.
7. Dan Silviu Boerescu, „Viaţă transformată în literatură”, prefaţă la Gheorghe Crăciun, Compunere cu paralele inegale, p. V.
8. Gh. Crăciun, „Semne pregătitoare pentru o aventură,” Acte originale. Copii legalizate, ed. I, p. 6.
9. Ibid., „Doborîtură de vînt”, Acte originale. Copii legalizate, p. 32.
10. Gheorghe Crăciun, Dintr-un „caiet de teze”, în „Interval” serie nouă, nr. 4 (12), 1998, Braşov, p. 31.
11. Ioan Holban, O lume de citate, revista „România literară”, 2007, nr 28, http://www.romlit.ro/o_lume_de_citate accesat la 14.04.2015, 20:09.
12. Gh. Crăciun, „Acte originale, copii legalizate”, Acte originale/copii legalizate, p. 110.
13. Ibid., Compunere cu paralele inegale, ed. I, p. 242.
14. Ibid., Acte originale/copii legalizate, ed. I, p. 113.
15. Ibidem, p. 15.
16. Ibidem, p. 127.
17. Gh. Crăciun, Compunere cu paralele inegale, ed. a II-a, p. 5.
18. Ibidem, p. 7.
19. Ibidem, p. 80.
20. „whose shape will be an interrogation, an endless interrogation of what is doing it while doing it, an endless denunciation of its fraudulence, of what it really is: an illusion (a fiction), just as life is an illusion (a fiction).” în Raymond Federman, Surfiction: Fiction Now… And Tomorrow, Proposition Two – The Shape of Fiction, p. 11.
