The Old Man and the Bureaucrats

Name: The Old Man and the Bureaucrats
Author: Mircea Eliade

by Mircea Eliade

Novella about an elderly man evading Communist secret police through bureaucratic absurdity

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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.

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