ȘANTIER, EXPERIMENT READY MADE ȘI ROMAN (DE)COLONIAL
Synopsis
This issue aims to study the critical reception and the literary project of one of the most special Mircea Eliade's Inter-War books: Building Site (Șantier, 1935), designed by him as an „indirect novel” by cutting – and retrospect comment – of his personal diary during his Indian studies of Calcutta, when Eliade gets to witness the Gandhi's anticolonial Revolution. The textual analysis envisages not only issues related to composition, but especially the identity dimension of the book, as well as the relation alongside other fictional or nonfictional writings of the author.