"A pessimist, faultfinding outlook on the phenomenon would classify the explosion of eroticism as a literary evil, on the grounds of, let's say, the obsession that does not free, but condemns to imprisonment: an imprisonment with respect to the requirement of total expression, of disinhibition through utterance, of the proscription of the right to intimacy (prudishness?). Literature would risk dying from egocentrism and ero(s)-centrism alike."
Dilema veche, September 2005
by Magdalena Mărculescu-Cojocea
