Mircea Nedelciu’s Mysterious Territories

Abstract

This article deals with the mysterious side of Mircea Nedelciu’s fictional geography. Often underestimated by the critics in terms of their aesthetic and conceptual value, these “mysterious territories” (utopian “mysterious islands” and “vanishing points”) play, however, an important part in the overall signification system of Nedelciu’s works. In order to prove it, I have identified them and interpreted their symbolic value(s) through recent anthropological and cultural theories concerning the concepts of space and utopia, thus showing that they are a main contribution to the literary representation of the author’s weltanschauung.