THE LITERARY EXILE OF MIRCEA ELIADE
THE LITERARY EXILE OF MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: "The article „Eliade's Literary Exile” evokes the significance of the Romanian literary exile, focusing on the writer Mircea Eliade. Being at the centre of our study, we will analyse both the experiences he had on the territory of his motherland and those he spent abroad, where he was forced to adapt to new challenges. As the writer himself evokes, exile can be a complex, labyrinthine area, which involves transcending obstacles in the hope of finding oneself. Moreover, exile does not have positive valences,but designates the option through which one can achieve finding oneself. In this context, it is fair to compare the writer's adaptation with the way in which Ulysses made his way to Ithaca. We find the significance of this landmark in the experience of each person, because in deepening human consciousness, we will always find points or values ​​that we are aware of or are barely discovering. The writer's preadaptation in exile, according to the comparison I illustrated earlier, denotes that this phenomenon must be treated rigorously, and the suffering caused by alienation must be capitalized upon. For Eliade, as well as for other cultural figures of his generation, exile represented the only way to avoid major harm to one's career or personal life. Therefore, we observe that exile can be classified into two categories: imposed exile, as a coercive factor, or voluntary exile, in which one voluntarily chooses the path to freedom from one's own determinism.Mircea Eliade, a complex writer, cannot be analysed from a single perspective, but from different angles, which each time evoke new and different aspects. The author has multiple interests regarding his literary approaches: first of all, he is concerned with the place of the sacred, the profane and the valences of the fantastic on the human being, later, dedicating himself to spirituality, philosophy, themes that we will find integrated in his work. Eliade's scientific writings are constantly correlated with his political involvement, without taking into account the contexts that determined the author's sympathies. In general, the idea is presented according to which the Romanian is a good artisan of myth, and the most suitable for this theory is Eliade himself.In his entire career, the author proves an inexhaustible power over creation ex nihilo, and the entire literary heritage is founded on a broad, mythical structure. The writer's universe is not easy to understand, it is not revealed to the reader all at once, but is suggested through multiple processes, symbols, and in order to penetrate the Eliade mystery, an engaging, efficient capacity for understanding and decoding the message is needed. In order to be able to analyse the phenomenon of exile as a whole, I resorted to analysing Eliade's Memoirs, which is a fundamental source through the multitude of experiences related, of his own comments on his destiny, which represent the best corpus of information about the writer, being evoked by his own person."

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