Florin Oprescu
Romanica Cracoviensia, Numéro spécial (2), Tom 23 (2023), s. 191 - 198
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.020.18514The CONVULSIVE Beauty and the Convulsions of the Surrealist Novel. Nadja (1928, A. Breton) and Zenobia (1985, G. Naum)
The article examines some of the communicating vessels (« vases communicants ») between André Breton’s theoretical surrealism and Gellu Naum’s neo-surrealism praxis. The focus of the analysis is also on the intersection points among the two novels, Nadja (1928) and Zenobia (1985), defining moments of beginning and of the last surrealism. The aim is to determine the synthetic (theoretical and practical) manifesto of Breton’s novel, Nadja, and the pure poetic act of the last European surrealist novel, Zenobia. Although the correspondences seemed clarified by Romanian literary criticism, the present article offers a new, in-depth and contrastive perspective on the « convulsive beauty », from theory to practice.