Marin Mincu şi agonia corporală a scriiturii

The present paper sets out to identify the main characteristics of Marin Mincu's criticism and to restore theories that he never put together systematically in independent volumes, but scattered throughout his work. Numerous articles, literary studies and interviews are reviewed. The bigger part of the paper is dedicated to Mincu's conception of the novel. There are taken into discussion concepts like textualism, the writing's authenticity, semiotic pluriverse and the recovering of the subject's corporality. Besides revealing a poetics of the novel expressed in theory papers, this work synthetically presents an implicit poetics of the genre, as it is laid out in Mincu's novel Intermezzo. The writing's corporal agony - which is at the same time born from its reflection on itself - came better out from Intermezzo, a novelistic experiment which contains its own hermeneutics. The recovering work in progress of the human subject's corporality has as a main effect the literalization of the novel's theory. The being's transfer into the text's letter leads inevitably to the intensification of the vital processes that offers writing an agonic corporality.