Homosocialitatea între transparență și translucență

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 novel
Cât 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 the
Bermuda 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 of
oblivion.