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Emile Cioran et Mircea Eliade ont été liés par une amitié à part, de très longue durée. Cette amitié spéciale qui les a unis s'exprime aussi dans leur correspondance de jeunesse, précisément dans les lettres réciproques écrites en roumain de 1933 à 1946. Nous reconstituons cet échange épistolaire à travers deux sources: les lettres de Cioran à Eliade publiées dans le volume Scrisori către cei de-acasă (1995a) et les lettres d'Eliade à Cioran publiées par Mircea Handoca dans le volume de correspondance Mircea Eliade, Europa, Asia, America . . . (1999). Documents biographiques importants, ces lettres permettent de pénétrer dans l'intimité de ces deux jeunes auteurs.

The present series offers an anthology of excerpts from all types of Mircea Eliade's writings, either unpublished or published as journals, reminiscences, memoirs, articles, essays, and shorter pieces, which may as a whole describe his own production and continual re/use of personal manuscripts. There is at present no systematic inquiry into the nature, form, quantity, and scope of his lost Bucharest archive. The rather large amount of Eliade Bucharest manuscripts sold through auctions since 2017 has already lethally interfered with the integrity of Eliade's archive, as he bid farewell in August 1942 and the subsequent material owners offered after Eliade's death no public catalogue or minimal listing of identified manuscripts, no indices, and almost no proper clues regarding its very size. Meanwhile, some manuscripts from this archive were sold directly by Eliade estates to public institutions in Romania (1986-1989) or sold directly to two public libraries in Bucharest by the sole material owner (and for his own personal benefit), in March-December 1989. Eliade's published and especially unpublished manuscripts auctioned since 2017 are extraordinarily diverse, and only a part have been rescued by public institutions (17 manuscripts by the Library of the Romanian Academy in 2021, 67 manuscripts by the donors of the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy in 2002, and several others at present under critical scrutiny, in 2023 and by the donors of the same Institute). All these manuscripts are only a fragment from the full archive Eliade left for good in Bucharest in 1942. Synoptic re-reading may thus help indeed improve our knowledge of that very archive, its content being a source of endless litigious intervention. The series complements ECCE | The Complete Critical Edition of Mircea Eliade's Scholarly Works before 1945, under the aegis of the Institute for the History of Religions, as well as MEUM | Mircea Eliade's Unpublished Manuscripts from Private Collections, published by Eugen Ciurtin and Andreea Apostu in Transilvania 51 [155] (2023), no. 1, pp. 1-22 (Critical edition), no. 2, pp. 1-16 (Concordances A-E), and no. 3, pp. 1-16, with forthcoming instalments in 2023.

After his resignation from "Revista universitară" ["Universitary Journal"] in 1926, due to the scandal ignited by his review of Nicolae Iorga's "Essai de synthèse de l'histoire de l'humanité," Eliade continued to collaborate with the publication under the pseudonym "S.N.". The three reviews analyzed in this article may seem of little importance – short informative texts, they nonetheless reveal the diversity of the young author's interests and the persistence of several themes from Eliade's youth to his late maturity: Italian culture (in his review of Alexandru Marcu's "The Italian Romantics and Romanians"), B.P. Hasdeu's life and works, metapsychic experiences and esoterism (through discussing Alberto Fidi's "Treatise on Talismans"). These short texts reveal what we have called a sort of individual "longue durée" – a long-term affinity for certain subjects which evolves gradually and thoroughly throughout Eliade's life. His passion for B.P. Hasdeu's work and personality, for instance, started with a highschool conference, continued with an unfinished book project (revealed recently at an auction) and grew into an edition of Hasdeu, published in 1937: "Literary, Moral, and Political Writings." Our article also analyses the connections between Eliade's early articles and this new, unprecedented material, that appeared in March 2022 at a national auction.

This paper aims to analyze the way in which Mircea Eliade became, in 1926, a vector of the cultural and scientific transfer between Western Europe and Romania, through his translations of eight fragments from Aldo Mieli, Raffaele Pettazzoni and Sylvain Lévi's major works. Two out of these eight translations seem to have been ignored to this day by researchers, whilst the others have only been mentioned in passing. The choices made by Eliade, the context in which these translations were published (the journal Orizontul/The Horizon and its public, the precarious state of the history of religions at that time in Romania etc.) and their echoes in Eliade's works prove that they can be seen as an example of cultural transfer. They also play an important part in the foundation of the history of religions as a discipline in Romania, being, in a way, the textual equivalents of Eliade's institutional aspiration to found an association and a library for the study of religions, as expressed in his letters to Raffaele Pettazzoni.