Mircea Eliade, Author, Fred H. Johnson, Jr., Translator University of Chicago Press $17 (362p) ISBN 978-0-226-20413-0
``Here is a rich and provocative book--a dazzlingpk journal kept by the renowned Romanian Orientalist and historian of religion during his professorship at the University of Chicago,'' reported PW . ``The breadth of Eliade's mind is as extraordinary
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Mircea Eliade, Author, Mac L. Ricketts, Translator University of Chicago Press $31 (248p) ISBN 978-0-226-20411-6
Huddled in an air-raid shelter during the London Blitz, Eliade mulls over ``the mystery of collective death.'' His first meeting with his wife Christinel prompts thoughts about ``manifestations of the sacred'' in daily life. In this memoir, the...
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Mircea Eliade, Author, Mac L. Ricketts, Translator, Matei Calinescu, Introduction by Ohio State University Press $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0457-3
These three novellas, written when Eliade was already an old man, seem to have come from a time warp. Heavily symbolic, they owe a large debt to the surrealism of the '20s. Set in Romania, each attests to the author's fascination with wordplay and...
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Mircea Eliade, Author, Mac Linscott Ricketts, Translator University of Chicago Press $32 (227p) ISBN 978-0-226-20416-1
In 1945, after his first wife's death and the Soviet invasion of his native Romania, the 38-year-old Eliade found himself in Paris, destitute and uprooted. Translated from his notebooks and never published before in any language, this installment of
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Mircea Eliade, Author, Catherine Spencer, Translator University of Chicago Press $22.5 (184p) ISBN 978-0-226-20418-5
Read together with Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not Die (see below) these two moving novels--one written in 1933, the other more than 40 years later in response to the first--by two world-renowned intellectuals retell the story of their real love affair...
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