The Forbidden Forest

This major novel by one of the great thinkers of our century is now available in English for the first time.

The creative personality of Mircea Eliade has found expression in his writings on the history of religions and in his fiction. For English-language readers, however it is impossible to fully assess the complex vision of the Romanian author as long as his novels re- main unavailable in translation. And nowhere are the epic faculties of Eliade revealed as completely as in his greatest novel, The Forbidden Forest.

The '"Forbidden Forest" is the collective myth of the Romanian people, the symbol of their salva- tion. In this novel the forest represents in overt form the psychic ideal of characters who seek to escape the world of historical time for an eternal plane. The Romanian hero, Stefan, pursues his hope for immortality through numerous vicissitudes in the years 1936-1948.