Mircea Eliade Time, Death, & the Unspeakable Secret Paperback Book

The Romanian writer Mircea Eliade is best known in the Englishspeaking world as an influential historian of religion, author of such works as The Sacred and the Profane and The Myth of the Eternal Return. However, Eliades body of work is much broader, and throughout his life he kept the world of fiction and mysticism very close to his heart. Starting at the age of fourteen, Eliade continuously produced works of fiction alongside his academic work. This volume consists of six of his best short stories, taken from over a 30year period, starting in 1959 with A FourteenYearOld Photograph the tale of a distance healing in which the patient claims miracle while the healer admits artifice and including perhaps his most famous short story, the timeshifting At the Gypsies, and culminating with In the Shadow of a Lily, the last story Eliade is known to have written. Each of these stories is dense with allusions and interwoven with connections and references drawn from the imagination and vast knowledge of a great man. Who knows what secrets they may conceal? One thing is for sure they will repay repeated close reading, but will also charm on the first encounter. | Mircea Eliade Time, Death, & the Unspeakable Secret Paperback Book