The dialectics sacred-profane within Mircea Eliade’s “Nineteen roses” Cover Image

Dialectica sacru-profan în romanul Nouăsprezece trandafiri, de Mircea Eliade
The dialectics sacred-profane within Mircea Eliade’s “Nineteen roses”

Author(s): Laura Albu
Subject(s): Romanian Literature
Published by: Asociația Cultural Științifică „Dimitrie Ghika-Comănești”
Keywords: sacred; profane; rose; nineteen; myth; fantastic;

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to help the innocent reader to understand the relation sacred-profane which represents the axial points of the novel "Nineteen roses", by Mircea Eliade. When reading Eliade’s works, we have to take into account that the writer tries to express fictionally his scientific theories about myths and the difference between the archaic human being and the modern one. Eliade believes that the sacred didn’t disappear, but it continues to survive, only covered in a profane world. The chose being can discover this sacred after following a ritual of initiation.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 477-482
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian