Acceptions de l’espace dans le discours diurne / nocturne dans l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade

Abstract

The present study investigates the manifestations of the sacred and the profane in Mircea Eliade’s work. More precisely it analyses the ways in which space is depicted, focusing on various spatial variants, such as the concepts of house, center, limits, etc., in light of the sacred / profane duality that is specific to Eliade’s work. Mimetism, camouflage and disguise are some features of Eliade’s fantastic literature, as well as the subtle game of simultaneously showing and hiding something. At the level of discourse, these aspects are translated by coding the information so that later it can be decoded partly by the author, partly by the reader.

Keywords

• discourse
• sacred
• profane
• space
• center
• limit