MIRCEA ELIADE VĂZUT DE NICOLAE STEINHARDT
MIRCEA ELIADE SEEN BY NICOLAE STEINHARDT

Summary/Abstract: We intend to analyse the perspective of Nicolae Steinhardt on Mircea Eliade, as it evolved from his first essays, critical, but written with humour, up to the last writings, dating from the 1980s. Most of them were published during his life, some of them remaining unknown to the public until Florian Roatiș: published the book “Steinhardt on Eliade, Cioran, Ionescu and Noica. Essays and Confessions”, volume which appeared in 2017, at Polirom Publishing House. The interest that these writings have is due to the fact that the future monk from Rohia is the author of an original interpretation, integrating the whole work of Eliade, both the scientific one and the literary one, that expresses, at a high level, the Romanian specificity, representing through the language in which the short stories and the novels were written, a continuous link with his country and his people. As regarding the fantastic style of Eliade, Steinhardt places it in the oriental fantastic, fundamentally different from the Western one, a fantastic which invites the reader to decipher the deep senses of existence. The essays bring to light not only the international echo/span of Eliade’s writings, but especially the author’s admiration for the impressive work of Eliade, for the open-mindedness toward multiple cultural areas, as well as for the strength that Eliade proved to remain powerfully connected to his native country, through his literature.

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