Tomasz Krupa
Romanica Cracoviensia, Numéro spécial (2), Tom 23 (2023), s. 183 - 190
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.23.019.18513Anti-Modern Femininity and Vampiric Masculinity in Sorana Gurian’s Short Story “Vila Myosotis”
In Sorana Gurian’s early French and Romanian writing, feminine subjectivities are pushed into an anti- modern position by an oppressive modern discourse, resulting in feelings of displacement and trans- planting that lead to a paradoxical posture which is both progressive and reactionary. Through Vila Myosotis ([1939] 1946), Gurian explores the possibility of reconciling with oneself by returning to the past. However, her escape into the world of dreams awakens repressed desires and origins. This reactionary tendency seeks to establish empathy in the face of progress and modernity, and it allows for the creation of an autonomous female subjectivity that challenges the dominant discourse of masculinity, portrayed here through vampiric imagery.
Tomasz Krupa
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 22, Numer 1, Tom 22 (2022), s. 129 - 136
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.22.012.15644Towards a Rehabilitation of a Woman Writer. Elena Ion, Femeia fără chip. Pe urmele Soranei Gurian [The Faceless Woman. On the Trail of Sorana Gurian]
This paper aims to discuss the strategies that Elena Ion uses to bring Sorana Gurian and her literary work back into cultural discourse. Firstly, I will recapitulate existing research and the way her writings were received after her death in 1956. I will then present the main objectives and results of Elena Ion’s study, as well as the importance of the new sources she has identified for further research into the work of Sorana Gurian.
Tomasz Krupa
Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 21, Numer 3, Tom 21 (2021), s. 229 - 238
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.21.023.14195This paper aims to explore Paul Celan’s writings in the Romanian language which have been preserved as manuscripts, and their significance to his very earliest poetry. Firstly, I will reconstruct the Bucharest episode in his life and work and then discuss the nature of the manuscripts that I examined in 2015. I will then recapitulate existing research on these texts. Discussing one of them, I will propose to update their meaning for this poetic work, especially in the context of Jacques Derrida’s Shibboleth for Paul Celan.