REFLECTIONS UPON THE PROFANE OR SACRED TIME IN THE NOVEL NOAPTEA DE SÂNZIENE BY MIRCEA ELIADE
REFLECTIONS UPON THE PROFANE OR SACRED TIME IN THE NOVEL NOAPTEA DE SÂNZIENE BY MIRCEA ELIADE

Summary/Abstract: One of the existential anxieties caught in the novel "Noapte de Sânziene" de Mircea Eliade is that of time. The characters of this novel become carriers of messages and their space of action a real maze, determined by the relationship between the sacred and the profane. The belief of the character, Stefan Viziru, that the historical events hide deep spiritual significance goes back to a period in the author's life, the period of the European exile, an initiating journey, an attempt to decode his destiny journey. In the pages of the novel one can find constant symbolical re-investments by interpreting certain national contemporary events, a philosophy of the relationship between the destiny and history of the Romanian people. The novel, through its theme complexity and the haunting search oh the sacred in a modern world, becomes a challenge to find answers to the meaning of human existence by taking over the idea present in Mircea Eliade's studies, namely, sacred time is "circular, reversible and recircular time".

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