Les formes et les fonctions du fantastique chez Mircea Eliade
Forms and functions of the fantastic at Mircea Eliade
Based on several critical ideas, our study represents mainly an essay on the Romanian philosopher and writer Mircea Eliade and his fantastic prose. The sources of the Fantastic, its basic forms of existence, the ways to enter the unreal field and the description of the unreal world determine the two basic functions of Mircea Eliade’s
Fantastic: the literary function and the social one. They highlight the modernity of Eliade’s fantastic prose which is, on a whole, a pleading for the contemporaries’ right of dreaming in a world where the Profane replace the sacred values.
Keywords: Mircea Eliade, values of the fantastic, myth, sacred and profane imagination
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