Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Homosociality represents a term that defines the sexual desire that may manifest in relationships between men, as well as the dissociation from it under the pressure of heteronormativity. This paper analyzes, in the novelCât mai aproape de tine by Vlad Roman, homosociality as an aspect of the crisis of masculinity. When the social desire between two men, David and Robert, is diverted towards a woman, Ana, an authentic “triangle of desire” is shaped, that is never actually confronted but the tensions of which have the destructive force of theBermuda Triangle. In this dynamic of relationships, it is suggested that the love felt for the woman is transparent, meanwhile, the love between the two men has the characteristics of translucency - this difference manifests a crisis out of which the man comes out through the door of suicide, and the woman, through that ofoblivion.
Author: Elena Daniela GOROVEI
Institution: "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410199012
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