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Mircea Eliade's "Ordeal by Labyrinth"
Autobiography As a Form of Interpreting the Meaning of Turning Points in the Au-thor's Life
Abstract
Mircea Eliade, undoubtedly one of the most outstanding humanists of the twentieth century, was not only a philosopher of culture, a scholar of religion, and historian of religion, but also a writer and memorialist. He devoted a lot of space in his work to his own life, apart from diaries, he wrote journals. He published many conversations about himself, and wrote novels and autobiographical novels. He understood life as an uninterrupted series of "trials", initiations, and struggles with fate, as specific turning points shaping human existence. Eliade describes the process of becoming a human being using his own experience. And writing, especially autobiographical writing, was for him a necessary element of the rite of passage. He understood existence as an "ordeal by a labyrinth", as if the conditio humana included the fact that man must still experience a series of symbolic deaths and rebirths in order to be able to form himself in this process.
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Mircea Eliade, ordeal by labyrinth, autobiography, initiationDetails
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