MIRCEA ELIADE AND THE FIRST ROMANIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE IN EXILE
MIRCEA ELIADE AND THE FIRST ROMANIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE IN EXILE

Summary/Abstract: After the Soviet occupation, the communist regime started a powerful action to destroy the authentic Romanian culture. The result was an attempt to obliterate the Romanian identity. In exile, editing different publications, starting with the first one Ŕ Luceafarul - many Romanian intellectuals used press (including the literary one) to maintain memory and cultural identity. Nevertheless, one of the most important intellectual was Mircea Eliade. Like many others, he assumed on a full basis the duty to live the exile with the consciousness of the responsibility towards the culture in which he had been formed, as well as towards the country which had determined it. Thus, by the help of general Radescu (and others from the US), he founded the first literary magazine in exile, having a name that reminds the well-known Romanian national poet Eminescuřs poem. In the magazine, Eliade contributed also with two essays and two short stories

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