ABOUT LOVE, MURDER AND EMERALDS. IOAN PETRU CULIANU'S ”SERIOUSLY” GAME WITH FICTION

Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai
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Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai: Universitatea „Lucian Blaga” din Sibiu

Management Intercultural, 2015, issue 34, 391-397

Abstract: This study looks into how Ioan Petru Culianu illustrated some of his ideas, as a historian of religions and as a philosopher of culture, in one of his literary works, The Emeralds Game. This novel is more than mere detective fiction, it is also a magic and esoteric novel, and to understand it we need to refer to magic, astrologic or geomantic practices. This means the considerations the author expressed in his other essential scientific works are “logically” extended, continued in this literary writing. The contemporaneity of the work is suggested by the significant fictional world it proposes, a world where the political blends with the religious, where reality blends with the psychological, science with adventure; all these aspects bring this novel to the same level with other similar novels, like Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose or Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.

Keywords: gnosis; magic; real – spiritual relationship; secret societies; fictional worlds; Ioan Petru Culianu (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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