MIRCEA ELIADE’S PORTUGAL JOURNAL: DOCUMENTARY AND LITERATURE VALUE
MIRCEA ELIADE’S PORTUGAL JOURNAL: DOCUMENTARY AND LITERATURE VALUE

Summary/Abstract: The Portugal Journal is one of the less known and the most controversial books of Mircea Eliade. The article gives a brief survey of it. The author demonstrates that Portugal Journal represents a precious document for the literary historian and critic. It is full and frank statement of his political and scientific view. But perhaps the greatest value of this book is what it shows us the personality of its author. The Portugal Journal reveals more about the man Eliade than any other volume that has been published. Eliade's grief over the loss of his beloved wife defines a special character of Journal chronology. The relationship between real facts and their interpretation may be considered as one of the sources of his scientific theories (myth of eternal return in particular).

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