%0 Journal Article
%T Anti-Modern Femininity and Vampiric Masculinity in Sorana Gurian’s Short Story “Vila Myosotis”
%A Krupa, Tomasz
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Volume 23 (2023)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.23.019.18513
%N Special Issue 2
%P 183-190
%K modern, femininities, masculinities, vampire, Romanian literature, feminist literary criticism, criticism of psychoanalysis
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2023
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/feminitatea-antimoderna-si-masculinitatea-vampirica-in-nuvela-soranei-gurian-vila-myosotis
%X 
	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.