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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 4 / 2007  
         
  Article:   GNOSTIC ELEMENTS IN MIRCEA ELIADE’S THINKING.

Authors:  ŞTEFAN BORBELY. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  A few years ago I started to investigate the odd wardrobe of several major characters depicted by Mircea Eliade’s fictional, fantastic prose: all of them wear old-fashioned, strange garments, as if they belong to a distant past whose knowledge and experience are perceived as a secret code of hidden symbols and contents transmitted to our era. Mircea Eliade’s literary works are full of exquisite, sophisticated scholarly encryptions: several characters have the root “Pan” in their names (Pandele, Pantazi, Pantelimon), which is actually the name of a famous Greek fertility god; a few texts are perfectly symmetrical, composed by two parts reflecting the spiritual shift from time to eternity. Several stories – like The Serpent, for instance - evoke the strange dialectics of two marriages, one of them being historical, and the other eternal, whilst a few characters have two lovers, one of them existing in the empirical world, and the other in the brilliant realms of Heaven.  
         
     
         
         
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