미르체아 엘리아데 환상소설의 문학적 의미

Abstract

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986)'s fantasy literature is not irrelevant to his religious experience in his whole life. In order to understand Eliade's fantasy literature, one should study first hermeneutics, then phenomenology and methodology. The modern human being is very non-mythological and non-religious because he lives in the tradition of rational enlightenment, in a naturalistic, and scientific way. However, if one lives in a world that exclude these kind of religious and mythological things, he can not understand other modern phenomena such as the unconscious, dreams, ideology, violence and also will not be able to reflect the modern world. In this context, fantasy literature of Eliade plays an important role to open another world, a world that is hidden to modern human. Eliade is a religious scholar, but his literature was never inspired from religion. Also, he has never intentionally used the material or the symbolic meaning of myths. Eliade defined his literature as the manifested world in the basis of the universe, which belongs to common life. Simultaneously, it is defined as the total subjective concept that is distinct due to the personal experiences in both space and time. His literature contributes to develop Eliade's own concept, and as his literary and religious studies are related to each other, it reminds us to understand the situation of modern human and the importance of cultural renewal that was most important and valuable in the our spiritual history. He usually wrote in the literary style, like a labyrinth, in accordance with his intuition. While Eliade deals with the historical tragedy in his works, he represents the fantasy, and made his writings more valuable through 'creative hermeneutics'. In other words, these methods as well as his novels represent the manifestation of the sacred, which are actually the way to acknowledge the absolutes that Eliade had sought continuously throughout new humanism.