Identificări simbolico-rituale ale mitului eternei reîntoarceri în Noaptea de Sânziene, de Mircea Eliade
Symbolical – Ritualistic Identifications Of The Eternal Return Myth In Midsummer Night, By Mircea Eliade

Summary/Abstract: The Forbidden Forest is a complex novel, structured on two story lines, according to the two dimensions of existence – sacred and profane – which are in a relationship of permanent complementarity. Therefore, in the „profane” plan of existence, the characters have an absolutely insipide social life, according to the „rhythms” of their historical time, whereas in the sacred dimension of the life seen as fate, they are subconsciously involved in archaic, long ago „forgotten” rites, as in the case of the eternal return myth. In this article, I have identified in the intimate structure of The Forbidden Forest the presence of the stages of this mythical scenario displayed by Mircea Eliade in a scientific essay written and published simultaneously with the period of elaboration of the novel mentioned above.

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