Teatrul excentric al identității: masculinitatea decadentă în poezia lui Alexandru Macedonski

Analyzing some of Alexandru Macedonski’s poems, written both in Romanian and in French, this study aims to outline the construction of macedonskian masculinity as a reflection of the decadent theatricalization of identity, demonstrating that his vitalistic and dominant hyper-virility is closely linked to the obsession with self-representation which in its narcissic ambiguity allows us to glimpse eccentric and non-normative aspects of a multiple masculinity.