by Mircea Eliade · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478442133
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«El burdel de las gitanas» is Mircea Eliade's collection of short stories, published by Siruela in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together three initiatory tales —«Las tres gracias», «El puente» and «El burdel de las gitanas»— linked to Mircea Eliade's studies on religion and myths. Between memory and dream, the characters walk through Bucharest or cross the Romanian landscapes while seeking a way out of life's enigmas.
Number 65 in Siruela's Libros del Tiempo collection, translated from the French by María Teresa Gallego and María Isabel Reverte.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in Romanian literature and the connections between myth and fiction.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
