Mircea Eliade

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born

March 13, 1907 in Bucharest, Romania

died

April 22, 1986

gender

male

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C.G. Jung, Honoré de Balzac, Surendranath Dasgupta, Julius Evola, René...more

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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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Average rating: 3.97 · 9,898 ratings · 331 reviews · 182 distinct works

	Maitreyi 3.82 avg rating — 1,773 ratings — published 1933 — 14 editions	My rating:
	The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (Translator) 3.96 avg rating — 1,334 ratings — published 1957 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Le roman de l'adolescent myope 3.77 avg rating — 845 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Nuntă în cer 4.05 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 1938 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade, Willard R. Trask (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 1949 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Mademoiselle Christina 3.98 avg rating — 484 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger (Goodreads Author) (Foreword by), Willard R. Trask (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 1951 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Noaptea de Sânziene vol. 1 4.17 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1955 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Secretul doctorului Honigberger. Nopţi la Serampore 4.05 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Youth Without Youth by Mircea Eliade, Francis Ford Coppola (Foreword by), Mac Linscott Ricketts (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions	My rating:

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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

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“Dacă omul va uita cu desăvârşire că există moarte, că există un sfârşit, riscăm să ne întoarcem la maimuţe. Explicaţia este simplă: omul activ, omul creator, este excitat mai ales de ideea că într-o zi se va termina totul, că va avea un sfârşit, o odihnă definitivă. Cultivă la maximum conştiinţa acestui sfârşit, şi vei obţine de la oameni cele mai extraordinare eforturi. Cine ştie asta incontinuu este în stare să ridice munţii, este în stare de cele mai crâncene libertăţi, de cele mai curajoase acte.”
― Mircea Eliade, Huliganii

tags: philosophy-of-life

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“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
― Mircea Eliade, Le roman de l'adolescent myope

tags: melancholy , wails

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