Echoes of Romanian History in Literature: Mircea Eliade and Mircea Cărtărescu’s visions

Abstract

Mircea Eliade’s Noaptea de Sânziene and Mircea Cărtărescu’s trilogy Orbitor (Aripa stângă, Corpul and Aripa dreaptă) rewrite some of the most important events of the 20th Century History of Romania. The aim of this paper is to analyze, from a comparative perspective, these novel’s fictional treatment.

Keywords

• Mircea Eliade
• Mircea Cărtărescu
• Rumanía
• Historia.