![]() ![]() This image of an inhabited microcosm, surrounded by desert regions as a chaos or a kingdom of the dead, has survived even in highly evolved civilizations such as those of China, Mesopotamia and Egypt." (from Images and Symbols, 1952) On this side there is ordered - because of inhabited and organized - space on the other, outside this familiar space, there is the unknown and dangerous region of the demons, the ghosts, and the dead and foreigners - in a world, chaos or death or night. ![]() At the limits of this closed world begins the domain of the unknown, of the formless. "In archaic and traditional societies, the surrounding world is conceived as a microcosms. The central theme in his novels was erotic love. Eliade was much interested in the world of the unconscious. He earned international fame with LE MYTHE DE L'ÉTERNAL RETOUR (1949, The Myth of the Eternal Return), an interpretation of religious symbols and imagery. Eliade was an intensely prolific author of fiction and non-fiction alike, publishing over 1,300 pieces over 60 years. Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, and one of the pre-eminent interpreters of world religion in this century. ![]()
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