DOMNIŞOARA CHRISTINA BY MIRCEA ELIADE. THE VAMPIRIC AVATARS OF THE ANIMA
Domnişoara Christina de Mircea Eliade Les avatars vampiriques de l’anima

Summary/Abstract: This essay about Domnişoara Christina (1936) by Mircea Eliade focuses, at first on the folkloric motifs in the novel, which intersect the implicit and explicit intertextualities coming from fantastic and gothic Western Europe literature. The second part of this study is dedicated to the construction of the image of “devouring femininity” and of its metamorphosis, and to the vampirophania, i.e. the gradual revelation and manifestation of a both terrifying and fantastic “reality”. The last part proposes a transversal reading of the novel trying to demonstrate that Christina is the projection of the anima, the female intra-psychic archetype of the main male character Egor.

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