Reflexions and reverbarations of the war in the literary work of Mircea Eliade: The Forbidden Forest and Twelve Thousand Head of Cattle

Abstract

As the tittle hints, the article is about World War Two aspects presents in the two literary works of the tittle, since the theme of the war is very present in both. They are different works, the first a large epic novel, redacted in realistic and documentary style (having an autobioraphical source), still with frequent incursions in mithic, the second a fantastic tale, but they have in common the treatement of o war episode, the american bombings in Bucharest in 1944, and especially the first one of them, occured on the Easter Sunday. Those bombings had reverberations also in others Romanians writters such contemporary Gabriel Stan, who described in his The 5th Mosquetaire the bombings of Braşov, in central Romania.

Keywords

• literatura, guerra, Mircea Eliade, La Noche de San Juan, Doce mil cabezas de ganado, Gabriel Stan.