L’errances post-mortem d’un identité fragmentée. Pudră de Dora Pavel entre Néo-Gothique et Postmoderne

Abstract

This paper examines Gothic-Postmodernism in Dora Pavel's fiction. In the first theoretical part, it will be presented the symbiotic convergence and the genetical affinity between Gothic and Postmodernism. In the second part, it will be shown that the works of the Romanian writer, through hybridizations and grafts, incorporates Gothic features sometimes explicitly, sometimes unconsciously and in a more encrypted way. A summary analysis of the first two novels-Dying Agata (Agata murind, 2003) and The Captive (Captivul, 2006)-will be proposed, through which some Gothic traces will be reviewed. A more extended case study will be dedicated to the novel Powder (Pudră, 2010).