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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.

DOI: 10.29302/inimag.2025.16.2.7 Full text Aesthetic oneirism Utopia Dystopia Myth +1

The ‘Imaginary’ World of the Afterlife: Parallel World in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Debjan

Incursiuni în imaginar November 2, 2024 Ayusman Chakraborty

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's novel Debjan (1946) depicts an afterlife where dead protagonists travel through multiple parallel worlds. Although Bandyopadhyay is often seen as a realist writer, this novel reveals his imaginative power by blending orthodox Hindu beliefs with Theosophy, a Western occult movement that claimed roots in Eastern religions. The article highlights how Bandyopadhyay uses Theosophical concepts like "thought form" and "tulpa"—the idea that mental constructs can be made real through spiritual training—to show spirits creating imaginary worlds. This mingling of Eastern and Western spiritualism makes Debjan a unique literary site of cultural encounter, a point previously overlooked by critics.

DOI: 10.29302/inimag.2020.11.3 Full text Tulpa Bibhutibhushan Debjan Parallel world +4

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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]

The ‘Imaginary’ World of the Afterlife: Parallel World in Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Debjan