| Journal I, 1945-1955 Contributor(s): Eliade, Mircea (Author), Ricketts, Mac Linscott (Translator) |
|||
 |
ISBN: 0226204162 ISBN-13: 9780226204161 Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: August 1990 Annotation: What is the purpose of a journal? To know myself better and to reveal myself more boldly to the eventual reader? In lycee I too, like all adolescents, was obsessed with 'knowing myself' through a long self-analysis of the genre Amiel. |
||
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91144723 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.72" W x 8.55" L (0.96 lbs) 227 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Features: Index |
| Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/12/1990 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Journal I is a story of revewal--of the new life that began for Mircea Eliade in the fall of 1945 when he became an expatriate. Eliade came to Paris virtually empty-handed, following the death of his first wife and the Soviet takeover of Romania, which made him a persona non grata there. He had left half a lifetime in Romania: his parents, whom he never saw again; his library; unpublished and unfinished manuscripts, including the journal notebooks prior to 1940; an academic career; and Zalmoxis, the journal of religious studies he founded. During the lean years in Paris Eliade lived and worked in small, cold rooms; prepared meals on a Primus stove; pawned his valuables; and asked friends for loans. Eventually he secured a research stipend from the Bollingen Foundation. His ten years in Paris were among his most productive; the books he wrote during this period brought him worldwide acclaim as a historian of religions. He records his first meetings with Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gershom Scholem, Georges Bataille, Andr Breton, Raffaele Pettazzoni, and many other scholars and writers. Eliade also continued to write literary works. Numerous entries describe his five-year struggle with his novel The Forbidden Forest. Spanning the twelve fateful years from 1936 to 1948, it expresses within a fictional framework the central themes of Eliade's work on religions. Writing the novel was a Herculean task in which Eliade summarized and memorialized his old Romanian life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Eliade, Mircea: - Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world's foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade was the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, including A History of Religious Ideas and ten novels. |
| Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review |
| To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First! |
Copyright © 2024 TheReadingWarehouse.com