Lorand Gaspar : L’épistolier poète-chirurgien

Lorand Gaspar, in his letters, a genre typically associated with intimate writing, blends the scientific, the poetic, and the literary. Linguistic and stylistic ambiguity is woven through a hybrid lexicon that draws from various fields. The interference of literary genres, along with poetry, creates a form of generic and transgeneric hybridity within Gaspar’s epistolary discourse. The letter writer frees himself from conventional genre codes just as he transcends spatial boundaries, allowing his thoughts and the identification of his “multiple” self to flow freely.