De la suprarealism la „onirismul structural”

Abstract

This approach tries to emphasize the similarities and differences between the poetics of Surrealism and the so-called “structural oneirism”, produced in the late sixties by a new Romanian avant-garde group. The two leaders of this group, the poet Leonid Dimov and the novelist Dumitru Țepeneag, published a series of literary manifestos in some literary magazines of the time, in which they tried to build a coherent and original aesthetic program. The main ideas were the rational structure of the new literature and its dream-like atmosphere produced by a deliberate technique, characteristics that placed it in the category defined by Angelo Guglielmi in the late fifties as “experimentalism”. However, the dark dreamy atmosphere, the “convulsive beauty”, the programmatic incoherence of the narration in order to create the dream-like effect, the incompatibility of the associations, etc. are features that still link this new literature to older Surrealism.