LA POETIQUE DU JOURNAL DANS LA CONCEPTION DE MIRCEA ELIADE
MIRCEA ELIADE s POETICS OF DIARY WRITING

Summary/Abstract: As an author and a passionate reader of intimate diaries, Mircea Eliade was preoccupied with the poetics of this literary genre. In his opinion, two are the traits of an intimate diary: authenticity and intimacy. With a few interruptions, he wrote his diary during his entire life. He often used the material of the diary for his literary production. Writing this diary, he intended not to confess himself, but to save fragments of concrete time. Eliade believed that the diary would have a great future, because the new generations would love personal texts.

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