| Title: | The Literary Pursuit of a Historian of Religions: The Case of Ioan Petru Culianu |
| Author: | Ștefan Borbely |
| Publication: | Journal of Romanian Literary Studies, 3, p. 13-20 |
| e-ISSN: | 2248-3004 |
| Publisher: | Arhipelag XXI Press |
| Place: | Tîrgu-Mureş |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | Going into intellectual exile from an Eastern Communist country, the historian of religions Ioan Petru Culianu brought along a whole series of inner obsessions, that of being constantly monitored and controlled by voracious political and hermeneutic “systems” becoming the major structure of his literary fiction, where players act within or against coded plots or “riddles”, built in a more or less metaphysical manner. If you interpret politics in terms of the controller and the controlled, that is as a cat-and-mouse play between an instance that exercises power and an entity who feels caught inside the complex network of control, you get a perfect binary combination, which involves both the controller and the victim. Ioan Petru Culianu’s lifelong obsession was to escape binary relationships by generating alternative realities or hyper-realities by magic, eroticism, ecstasy, shamanism, dreams, Tantra techniques or journeys into the otherworld. The paper examines their occurrences in Culianu’s fictional writings, aiming to demonstrate that the great majority of these texts are versions of an eschatological thinking. |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
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