THE FEAST AND ITS HYPOSTASES IN MIRCEA ELIADE’S PROSE
THE FEAST AND ITS HYPOSTASES IN MIRCEA ELIADE’S PROSE

Summary/Abstract: Feasting is one of the ”openings” through which the sacred manifests itself in imanence. The essence of feast is not, in itself, accessible to human knowledge, only its manifestations are. Therefore, the question to ask is not that of what feasting is, but how it is. To be able to grasp feasting in Mircea Eliade’s literary works, we have resorted to four of its forms of appearance: playing, theatre, creation and sacred eros. These are acts that have a special potential to open up a horizon of significations accessible to the initiated, should the latter undertake to decipher the signs and integrate the meaning in their own life. The article refers to Mircea Eliade’s short-stories in which playing, the spectacle, artistic creation and metaphysical love are particularly noticeable, not as mere occurrences but, rather, as festive instances circumscribing a festive chronotope. Eliade’s Romanian proses tackled here are: Podul (The Bridge), Adio!...(Goodbye), Uniforme de general (Two Generals’ Uniforms), Șarpele (The Serpent) and La țigănci (With the Gypsy Girls).

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