EVAZIUNE ONIRICĂ DIN COTIDIANUL DISTOPIC ÎN MATRICEA MITOPOETICĂ A FIINȚEI: „NUNȚILE NECESARE” DE DUMITRU ȚEPENEAG [DREAMLIKE ESCAPE FROM DYSTOPIAN EVERYDAY LIFE INTO THE MYTHOPOETIC MATRIX OF BEING: “THE NECESSARY MARRIAGE” BY DUMITRU ȚEPENEAG]
Incursiuni în imaginar October 23, 2025 Liliana Danciu
The Romanian writer Dumitru Țepeneag deconstructs myth and reconstructs it within the mystical atmosphere of reverie in his novel Nunțile necesare (The Necessary Marriage). Aesthetic oneirism, which he theorized, serves as a space for the individual's seclusion and self-discovery. The protagonist, Professor Ciobanu, a victim of envious colleagues, metamorphoses into the archetypal shepherd through a lucid dream directed by fantasy. Utopia and dystopia define his existential coordinates: utopia as an ideal world in thanatic dream, dystopia as the 'bad place' of everyday reality. The novel's description of a wedding with echoes of a funeral rite renders images captured by an eye closed to the outside, open to the inside, akin to filming a dream.