Enigma Otiliei by George Călinescu5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. (English) Copyright of Revista Transilvania is the property of Revista Transilvania and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. Finally, I argue that the author employs the narrative device of “prototypical distortion” to lampoon the characters’ deviance. Therefore, I point to the maladaptive psychological traits that the characters exhibit and to how these are projected into the character’ language, forming thus idiosincratic linguistic patterns. ![]() Călinescu’s 1938 novel Enigma Otiliei (Otilia’s Riddle) and, in the wake of several literary critics’ shared view that the novel’s characters are individuals driven by much more complex internal mechanisms than simply being based on a single social schema, I suggest that this complexity can be accounted for by the tools provided by psychopathology. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |