THE IMAGE OF THE CLOWN IN MAX BLECHER’NOVEL

Nicoleta HRISTU (hurmuzache)
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Nicoleta HRISTU (hurmuzache): “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galaţi

Management Intercultural, 2016, issue 35, 7-14

Abstract: This paper aims to identify the recurrent image of the clown and the references to the carnivalesque universe in Max Blecher’s fiction, distinctive elements of his writing, placed under the sign of the tragic. From the perspective of C.G. Jung’s abyssal psychology, focus is laid on the image of the clown, ascated with that of the trickster, an archetype of the authorial shadow transiting through the two worlds, reality/ immediate unreality, conscious/ unconscious. The hermeneutical undertaking attempts to decipher the contextual symbols which point to the duplicitous nature of the character, in the sense of a schizoid identity on the Ego/ Self axis. The conclusions underline the author’s tendency of substituting himself to this fantastic projection, by dissimulating a mask of absurd happiness as an imaginative exercise against biography.

Keywords: clown; trickster; Shadow; conscious; unconscious (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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