Architecture of Rupture

The Architecture of Rupture: Configurations of the Unstable develops a critical model for analysing the fantastic through the concept of rupture. Rather than defining the fantastic exclusively through genre, supernatural motifs, or the opposition between the possible and the impossible, the study examines the point at which the criteria that sustain the coherence of a fictional world become insufficient for the experience produced within that world. The proposed model distinguishes between rupture, configurations of rupture, instances of derealisation, propagation, interference, architecture, and limit. Its purpose is not to establish a totalising definition of the fantastic, but to provide a comparative and falsifiable analytical framework capable of describing how instability emerges, circulates between different levels of a text, and may ultimately acquire a structure of its own. The study brings Romanian literature into direct comparative relation with international literary traditions while avoiding both national exceptionalism and canonical hierarchy. Romanian specificity is approached as a question of distribution and interaction between mechanisms rather than as the expression of an invariant national essence. Version 1.0 contains the Preamble, the Methodological Note, and Chapter I, “The Architecture of Rupture”. These sections establish the conceptual vocabulary, methodological principles, criteria of falsifiability, and analytical framework of the project. Subsequent versions are intended to incorporate the remaining chapters progressively, extending the model through analyses of space, temporality, identity, interference, the limits of the model, the Romanian vector, and the fantastic as a form of knowledge. This version should therefore be understood as the first published stage of an evolving monographic study rather than as an abridged version of the completed work.