The Divine Love of Hafiz and Pushkin in Mircea Eliade's The Captain's Daughter
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JOURNAL:
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International Journal on Humanistic Ideology,
1(1),
127 -
144.
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YEAR:
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2008
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PUB TYPE:
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Journal Article
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SUBJECT(S):
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Mircea Eliade, The Captain's Daughter, Hafiz
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Literature
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-437-062
(Last edited on
2008/08/25 10:06:46 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Mircea Eliade’s “The Captain’s Daughter” invokes the legacies of Hafiz and Pushkin to sacralize the world. In this enigmatic short story, the motif of boredom denotes the characters’ immersion in profane time and in a mechanistic mode of being. A captain hires a peasant boy, Brânduº, to box with his son, Valentin. Brânduº subverts Valentin’s socialization into reflexive violence, and reveals that he knows that the captain’s daughter, Agrippina, had been left back a year at school. Intrigued, Agrippina tries to find out how Brânduº discovered the secret that was at once a family disgrace and transformative mystery. The young boy represents the spiritual freedom missing in Agrippina’s suffocating social and family environment. In its recollection of the various cultural guises of love, in its return to origins, Eliade’s story unifies cultures and connects us to the living universe.
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