Grigore Cugler și apunakismul. De la prozele scurte din Apunake și alte fenomene la Afară-de-Unu-Singur

Abstract

This article continues a previous approach on Grigore Cugler’s avant- garde texts (re)exploration and (re)discovery, Grigore Cugler și dimensiunea spectaculară a „romanului” Apunake / Grigore Cugler and the spectacular dimension of Apunake ‘novel’ (2023). As it is already known, Grigore Cugler represents a writer often associated with Urmuz, one of the central models of Romanian avant-garde literature. By using close reading methods with connections to stylistic analysis, the article focuses on the short stories that accompany the false ‘novel’ Apunake from the volume Apunake și alte fenomene (1934), such as Match nul, Logodin, Criptomestrula, Drumul dragostei, Scrisoare, and Erată. By continuing a previous approach on which we highlighted the way the poetics of the absurd spectacular is presented in Cugler’s texts, we aim to show a perpetuation of the writer’s specific poetics, that of apunakism. Apunakism represents a form of manifestation of Grigore Cugler’s poetics of absurd in his avant-garde texts, characterized by the presence of ‘twists and turns’ type of situations, ‘upside-down’ and alienated characters, alternate worlds, linguistic and stylistic mechanisms and experiments that continuously surprise the reader. We will also observe the perpetuation of this specific poetics and a particular narrative discourse of the writer crystallized in the texts from the 1934 volume to the 1946 volume, Afară-de-Unu-Singur.