The Forbidden Forest
| Author | Mircea Eliade |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forêt interdite |
| Translator |
Mac Linscott Ricketts Mary Park Stevenson |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1955 |
Published in English | 1978 |
| Pages | 645 |
The Forbidden Forest (Romanian: Noaptea de Sânziene; French: Forêt interdite) is a 1955 novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. The story takes place between 1936 and 1948 in several European cities, and follows Stefan Viziru, a Romanian man on a spiritual quest. The book was written between the years 1949 and 1954. It contains several elements and themes which also appear in the author's scholarly work, such as initiation rites and sacred time.[1]
The novel was first published in French translation in 1955 and in its original Romanian in 1971. An English translation was published in 1978. Eliade himself considered it to be his best work.[1] The novel received little response from the academic world upon the initial publication, although the Swedish professor Stig Wikander wrote a positive review for Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten.[2]
Bibliography
- Wikander, Stig (1956-01-05). "En rumänsk emigrantroman". Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten (in Swedish).
- Călinescu, Matei (1979). "Between History and Paradise: Initiation Trials". The Journal of Religion (University of Chicago Press) 59 (2): 218–223. doi:10.1086/486687. ISSN 0022-4189.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ellis, Gehrett (2008). "Forbidden Forest, The (Forêt interdite)". In Sollars, Michael; Llamas Jennings, Arbolina. The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present. New York City: Infobase Publishing. p. 273-274. ISBN 9781438108360.
- ↑ Timuş, Mihaela (2002). "Enigmaticul Stig Oscar Wikander". România literară (in Romanian) (22). ISSN 1220-6318.
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