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Biography Mircea Eliade
Biography
One of the greatest Romanian writers, Mircea Eliade was also a great cultural personality. His works, starching out over six decades, consists of short stories, novels, plays, memoirs, works of mythology, folklore, ethnology, sociology, anthropology, studies of history of religions. In spite of this diversity, all of Mircea Eliade's works are based on or have something to do with his theory of the camouflaging of the sacred in the profane. The influence of his thought, through his works and through thirty years as director of History of Religions department at Chicago University, is considerable. Mircea Eliade was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago where he remained and taught until his death on April 22 in the year 1986. Eliade was a student in philosophy at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy from Bucharest. In October he graduates the University of Bucharest with a paper on Campanella. In 1933 Mircea Eliade gets his PhD in philosophy with The Compared History of the Yoga Techniques. In 1945 he moves to paris and in 1948 he starts his collaboration with the magazine Critique, under the command of Georges Bataille. In 1957 he moves to Chicago as a professor of history of religions at the University of Chicago and in 1966 he becomes a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bibliography
1924, Romanul adolescentului miop. (Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent). Published in serial form in the periodicals Cuvântul, Viața Literară, and Universul Literar. Published in French: Ladolescent miop. Paris: Acte Sud, 1992. RR pp.48-73.
1927, "Itinerariu spiritual" (Spiritual Itinerary) Cuvântul (Sept.-Nov. 1927). RR pp.245-270.
1928, Gaudeamus. Revista de istorie si teorie literara. RR pp.56, 198-201.
1928, "Apolgia virilității" (Apology for Virility.) In Gândirea 8 (1928):8-9. RR pp.216-223.
1930, Isabel și apele diavolului (Isabel and the devils waters). Editura Natională Ciornei, Bucuresti. RR pp.414-436.
1932, Într-o Mânăstire din Himalaya, (In a Himalayan Monastery) Editura Cartea Româneasca, București.
1932, Întoarcerea din rai (Return from Paradise). Written in late 1932 and published in 1934, Editura Națională Ciornei, București. The first part of a projected trilogy with Huliganii (the Hooligans) and Viața Nouă (New Life). RR pp.677-707, 1035-1040.
1933, Maitreyi. Editura Cultura Natională, Bucuresti.
1934, Lumina ce se stinge (The Failing Light), Editura Cartea Românească, Bucuresti. RR pp.436-460.
1934, Șantier (Work in progress), Editura Cugetarea, Bucuresti, 1935. RR pp.752-755.
1935, Huliganii (The Hooligans), Editura Natională Ciornei, Bucuresti. RR pp.1007-1035.
1935, Domnișoara Christina (Miss Christina) Mademoiselle Christina. Paris: LHerne 1978. (French introduction by Eliade, 1978.). RR pp.1045-1052. In Mystic Stories: The Sacred and Profane. Tr. Ana Cartianu, edited by Kurt Treptow. Classics of Romanian Literature Series, Vol. II. Boulder: East European Monographs, 1992.
1936, Șarpele (The Serpent). Editura Natională Ciornei, Bucuresti, 1937. Andronic et le Serpente. Paris: LHerne 1979. (Introduction by Sorin Alexandresco). RR pp.1057-1073.
1937, "Aventura" (An Adventure) and "Intâlnire" (An Encounter). Both published in the back of the original edition of Șarpele. RR pp.1041-1042.
1938, Nuntă în cer (Marriage in Heaven). RR pp.1160-1178.
1939, Iphigenia. Play, Valle Hermosa, Argentina: Editura Cartea Pribegnei,
1951. Bucuresti: 1974. RR pp.1178-1185.
1940, Nopți la Serampore (Nights at Serampore). Translated by William Ames Coates, in Two Strange Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1986. RR pp.1185-1193.
1940, Secretul doctorului Honigberger (The Secret of Dr. Honigberger). Translated by William Ames Coates, in Two Strange Tales. Boston and London: Shambala, 1986.
1943, "Oameni și pietre" ("Men and Stones") Play. RR pp.1193-1199.
1945, "Un om mare" ("A Great Man"). Translated by Eric Tappe. In Fantastic Tales. London: Dillons, 1969. RR pp.1199-1203.
1946, "Fratele risipitor" (The Prodigal Brother) Luceafarul, 2, 1949, pp. 162-70.)
1951, "1241" (A Play in One Act) in Caiete de dor, 4 (1951): 10-14. Republished in Revista de istorie și teorie literară XXXIV (April-September, 1986): 2-3.
1952, "Douăsprezece mii de capete de vită" ("Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle"). Translated by Eric Tappe. In Fantastic Tales. London: Dillons, 1969.
1954, Noaptea de Sânziene (The Forbidden Forest), Ioan Cuza, Paris,
1971. Translated by M. L. Ricketts and Mary Park Stevenson. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1978.
1955, "Fata căpitanului" (The Captains Daughter). Published in La Țigănci și alte povestiri, Bucuresti: Editura pentru Literatură, 1969.
1955, "Adio" ("Goodbye") in La Țigănci și alte povestiri, translated by M. L. Ricketts in Imagination and Meaning. The Scholarly and Literary Works of Mircea Eliade, edited by Norman Girardot and M. L. Ricketts. New York: The Seabury Press, 1982.
1960, La Țigănci ("With the Gypsy Girls"). Translated by William Ames Coates. In Tales of the Sacred and Supernatural. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981.
1963, "O fotografie veche de 14 ani" ("A Fourteen Year Old Photograph"). First published in Nuvele, Madrid; Colectia Destin, 1963. Translated by M. Ricketts. The Louisberg College Journal, vol. VIII (1974): 3-15.
1963, Ivan in Nuvele, Madrid, Colectia Destin: 1963.
1963, "Podul" (The Bridge), in La Țigănci și alte povestiri, Bucuresti.
1963, "Ghichitor in pietre." ("The Man Who Could Read Stones") in Nuvele, Madrid, Colectia Destin: 1963. Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts in Changing Religious Worlds: The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade, ed. Bryan Rennie. Albany, NY: 2000.
1964, "Într-o cazarmă" (In a Barracks) in Destin (Madrid), 13-14 (1964): 84-92.
1967, Pe Strada Mântuleasa (The Old Man and The Bureaucrats). Translated by Mary Park Stevenson. Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979.
1968, În curte la Dionis (In Dionysus Courta collection of short stories), Editura Cartea Românească, Bucuresti.
1970, "Coloana nesfârșită" ("The Endless Column"), Editura Minerva, 1996.
1971, "Uniforme de general" (Generals Uniforms), in În curte la Dionis (In Dionysus Courta collection of short stories), Caietele inorogului IV, Paris, 1977.
1974, "Incognito la Buchenwalt" (Incognito at Buchenwalt), in În curte la Dionis, Caietele inorogului IV, Paris, 1977.
1975, "Pelerina" ("The Cape"), in Nuvele inedite, Editura Rum-Irina, Bucuresti, 1991. Translated from the Romanian by Mac Linscott Ricketts in Youth without Youth. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.
1976, "Les Trois Grâces," in În curte la Dionis, Caietele inorogului IV, Paris, 1977. Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts. In Tales of the Sacred and Supernatural. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981.
1976, "Tinerețe fară de tinerețe" ("Youth Without Youth.") Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts in Youth without Youth. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.
1979, "Nouăsprezece Trandafiri" ("Nineteen Roses.") Translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts in Youth without Youth. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.
1979 "Dayan" in Nuvele inedite, Editura Rum-Irina, Bucuresti, 1991.
1982, "La umbra unui crin" ("In the Shadow of a Lily") in Nuvele inedite, Editura Rum-Irina, Bucuresti, 1991.
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