SIMBOLISMUL CAMEREI ȘI AL OGLINZII ÎN LITERATURA LUI MIRCEA ELIADE
The symbolism of the room and the mirror in Mircea Eliade` s literature

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on the significance that a space (the room) and an object (the mirror) display in some of Eliade`s short stories (“With the Gypsy Girls”, “Dayan”, “The Bridge”, “Miss Christina”, “Two Generals' Uniforms”, “The Snake”) and in the novel “The Forbidden Forest”. For the historian of religions, the room has no common connotation, being one of the places that had a major influence upon his childhood. The Sambô room, a space where the time is abolished, is a symbolic chronotope that releases the human being from time, history, sensations; it is also something that triggers a kind of ineffable happiness, impossible to express in words. The mirror, the symbol of symbols according to the Dictionary of symbols (Jean Chevalier; Alain Gheerbrant), displays its role of border for the existential levels and connector of different levels of time and space.

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