

Le Mythe de l'éternel retour 1949
By Mircea Eliade, Cristian Butnariu, Víctor Obiols Llandrich, Lluís Duch Álvarez
- Cosmologie, Cosmology, Histoire, Philosophie
"This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986).
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- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Alianza Editorial, Pantheon books, Arkana
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- German, French, Russian, und
- ISBN
- 9788420636078
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