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A New Book
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Some month ago, the famous Columbia University Press in New York published within its collection East European Monographs, in its 538-th (DXXXVIII) number, the book Mircea Eliade, a Spirit of Amplitute by professor Eugen Simion, the president of the Romanian Academy. The volume is a nearly integral translation into English of the one issued in Romania
in 1995, Mircea Eliade, spirit al amplitudinii, Demiurg
Publishing House. We state “nearly integral” as, besides the initial
nineteen chapters (in Romanian language version), a twentieth one has been
added, that about The Diary of a “Man of the Process”. The book is a general view of Mircea Eliade’s writing activities - fictional and nonfictional ones - a review of the mythic narrations and of his early existentialist novels as well, a running both through his diary pages and his journalistic work. It represents the most ample and exact monograph of the Romanian writer, which places him on his deserved socle within the Romanian literature and the universal context during the 20th century (see the numerous references to Joyce, Svevo, Papini, Huxly, the world of myths so close to Eliade etc). The American edition - issued in excellent graphic
conditions - comprises in annexe a critical apparatus notes about the
writers mentioned in the text. Mircea Eliade, a Spirit of Amplitude is certainly the best monographic essay dedicated to the writer so far. |
