Mircea Eliade
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born
March 13, 1907
died
April 22, 1986
gender
male
place of birth
Bucharest, Romania
influences
Honoré de Balzac, Surendranath Dasgupta, Julius Evola, René Guénon, Nae Ionescu, Roger Caillois, Carl Gustav Jung, Rudolf Otto, Giovanni Papini, Gerardus van der Leeuw, Joachim Wach
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Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in this century. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. The central theme in his novels was erotic love.
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The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.92 — 397 ratings — published 1968 9 editions |
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Maitreyi by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.97 — 186 ratings — published 1998 4 editions |
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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade avg rating 4.08 — 141 ratings — published 1954 12 editions |
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (Bollingen Series (General)) by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.99 — 122 ratings — published 1964 7 editions |
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Le roman de l'adolescent myope by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.84 — 110 ratings — published 1989 3 editions |
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Nunta in cer by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.95 — 66 ratings — published 1938 3 editions |
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Mademoiselle Christina by Mircea Eliade avg rating 4.22 — 59 ratings — published 1978 3 editions |
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Youth Without Youth by Mircea Eliade avg rating 3.50 — 66 ratings — published 2007 |
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Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth by Mircea Eliade avg rating 4.23 — 48 ratings — published 1980 3 editions |
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Fantastic Tales by Mircea Eliade avg rating 4.19 — 37 ratings — published 1969 2 editions |
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""As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth"."
— Mircea Eliade
— Mircea Eliade
"Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own, he has desacralized the world in which his ancestors lived; but to do so he has been obliged to adopt an earlier type of behavior, and that behavior is still emotionally present in him, in one form or another, ready to be reactualized in his deepest being. "
— Mircea Eliade (The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion)
— Mircea Eliade (The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion)
"Maitreyi continuă totuşi cu o simplitate care începu să mă cucerească. Vorbea apei, vorbea cerului cu stele, pădurii, pămîntului. Îşi sprijini bine în iarbă pumnii purtînd inelul şi făgădui: ― Mă leg pe tine, pămîntule, că eu voi fi a lui Allan, şi a nimănui altuia. Voi creşte din el ca iarba din tine. Şi cum aştepţi tu ploaia, aşa îi voi aştepta eu venirea, şi cum îţi sunt ţie razele, aşa va fi trupul lui mie. Mă leg în faţa ta că unirea noastră va rodi, căci mi-e drag cu voia mea, şi tot răul, dacă va fi, să nu cadă asupra lui, ci asupră-mi, căci eu l-am ales. Tu mă auzi, mamă pămînt, tu nu mă minţi, maica mea. Dacă mă simţi aproape, cum te simt eu acum, şi cu mîna şi cu inelul, întăreşte-mă să-l iubesc totdeauna, bucurie necunoscută lui să-i aduc, viaţă de rod şi de joc să-i dau. Să fie viaţa noastră ca bucuria ierburilor ce cresc din tine. Să fie îmbrăţişarea noastră ca cea dinţii zi a monsoon-ului. Ploaie să fie sărutul nostru. Şi cum tu niciodată nu oboseşti, maica mea, tot astfel să nu obosească inima mea în dragostea pentru Allan, pe care cerul l-a născut departe, şi tu, maică, mi l-ai adus aproape. "
— Mircea Eliade
— Mircea Eliade
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