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El asunto principal de este libro que fue editado por primera vez en 1937 en Rumania y que, con el tiempo, se ha convertido en un verdadero clasico sobre el tema es la hermeneutica del universo religioso y los ritos metalurgicos de los babilonios y, en sentido mas amplio, de la alquimia en general. Pero lo realmente importante es que expone una serie de ideas que con el paso de los anos acabarian constituyendo el eje filosofico de toda la obras de Eliade como historiador de las religiones. Paidos continua asi su labor de dar a conocer al lector de habla castellana los importantisimos textos de Eliade, tarea ya iniciada con Putanjali y el yoga, Alquimi asiatica y el Diccionario de las religiones, este ultimo en colaboracion con Ioan P. Couliano.

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Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of Bucharest and, from 1928 to 1932, at the University of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the University of Bucharest and, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris.

From 1957, Eliade was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, known and appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels and volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story." Both Nights of Serampore and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger evoke the mythical geography and time of India. Mythology, fantasy, and autobiography are skillfully combined in Eliade's tales.

(Bowker Author Biography)