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Modernitatea prozei lui Mircea Eliade
The up-to-dateness fiction of Mircea Eliade

Author(s): Camelia Popa
Subject(s): Novel, Romanian Literature
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: modernity; diary; narrative techniques; confession; novel;

Summary/Abstract: This article tries to explain all the new techniques and themes brought by Mircea Eliade in his work, both in novels or scientific studies. The author built his novels as na diary, preferring the first person and the novel like a real confession. He also believed that the literature is the only one which can preserve the sacred into the profane world we have been living. The myth is also able to live though literature, so that his novels have as a central filed at least one mythological issue. Eliade considers that the living, the experience and the authenticity are new forms of a positive and new mentality.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 189-196
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian