FANTASTIQUE ET AUTHENTICITE CHEZ MIRCEA ELIADE
FANTASTIC AND AUTHENTICITY AT MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: We intend to point out the fact that there is no contradiction between authenticity and fantastic at Mircea Eliade but, on the contrary, what he theorizes in his youth essays Oceanography and Fragmentarium represents a personal theory of authenticity-one of the most profound of the epoch and of the theorists of the Criterion group and at the same time a keystone of the whole work, sustaining his literary creation as an element of unity before discovering the theory of disguising the sacred in the profane. There is no contradiction between the authenticity from the novel and the realist writings and the fantastic ones, the fantastic being itself, as the authenticity, a technique of emphasizing the tangible as significance -visible through the grey banality and which cannot be perceived rationally. Understood as an ontological thirst for the knowledge of realness, (Oceanography), the authenticity is like the fantastic a technique of realness and of the tangible through which the author aims at the profoundness and the multiplicity of existence.

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