Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas write by Mircea Eliade. This book was released on 1988. Youth Without Youth and Other Novellas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Three novellas set in Romania. In "The Cape," a saboteur prints phony copies of the Romanian party organ, Scinteia, antedating them by three years. The secret police, highly agitated, deduce that a worldwide peace organization is sending coded messages through the paper, derived from the beatitudes. In "Youth Without Youth," an old man is struck by a bolt of lightning and becomes young again. Now endowed with a fantastic memory and comprehension, he receives "thought" messages from the supernatural. "Nineteen Roses" concerns the secretary of a famous writer who finds himself reliving an experience that happened to his employer 30 years ago. The writer disappears and is presumed dead, but is he?
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade write by Douglas Allen. This book was released on 1998-09-01. Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's theories of religion, myth, and symbolism and analys
Changing Religious Worlds
Changing Religious Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changing Religious Worlds write by Bryan Rennie. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Changing Religious Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.
Youth Without Youth
Youth Without Youth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Youth Without Youth write by Mircea Eliade. This book was released on 2008-11-24. Youth Without Youth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history—a man who thought his life was over—lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade’s novella. Now in its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and terror of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader’s imagination. Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, Youth Without Youth illuminates Eliade’s longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. It was adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature film in over ten years. “A wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, [Eliade’s novellas] suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural to finding meaning in the everyday. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “Youth Without Youth reads like a surreal collaboration by Jorge Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung. Mircea Eliade left me with the rare sense that I had been entertained by a genius.”—William Allen, author of Starkweather and The Fire in the Birdbath and Other Disturbances
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions write by Christian K. Wedemeyer. This book was released on 2010. Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume comprises papers presented at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of Joachim Wach's death, and the centennial of Mircea Eliade's birth. Its purpose is to reconsider both the problematic, separate legacies of these two major twentieth-century historians of religions, and the bearing of these two legacies upon each other. Shortly after Wach's death in 1955, Eliade succeeded him as the premiere historian of religions at the University of Chicago. As a result, the two have been associated with each other in many people's minds as the successive leaders of the so-called "Chicago School" in the history of religions. In fact, as this volume makes clear, there never was a monolithic Chicago School. Although Wach reportedly referred to Eliade as the most astute historian of religions of the day; the two never met, and their approaches to the study of religions differed significantly. Several dominant issues run through the essays collected here: the relationship between the two men's writings and their lives, and in Eliade's case, the relationship between his political commitments and his writings in fiction, history of religions, and autobiography. Both men's contributions to the field continue to provoke controversy and debate, and this volume sheds new light on these controversies and what they reveal about these two `scholars' legacies.
