Mircea Eliade
Romanian author and religious historian whose fiction blends the mythical with the realistic in extraordinary ways. The Snake and The Forbidden Forest are rich explorations of Romanian folk mythology and modern alienation.
Works
- The Snake
- The Forbidden ForestNovel of forbidden love, mysticism, and spiritual awakening in Romanian history
- Two Strange Tales
- Miss ChristinaNovella depicting the uncanny romance between a writer and a phantom woman
- The Old Man and the BureaucratsNovella about an elderly man evading Communist secret police through bureaucratic absurdity