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The Forbidden Forest

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The Forbidden Forest
First French edition
AuthorMircea Eliade
Original titleNoapte de Sânziene
TranslatorMac Linscott Ricketts
Mary Park Stevenson
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian
PublisherÉditions Gallimard
Publication date
22 September 1955
Published in English
1978
Pages645

The Forbidden Forest (Romanian: Noaptea de Sânziene; French: Forêt interdite) is a 1955 novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. The story takes place between 1936 and 1948 in Bucharest and several other European cities, and follows a Romanian man who is on a spiritual quest while being torn between two women. The book was written between the years 1949 and 1954. It contains several elements and themes which also appear in the author's scholarly work, such as initiation rites and the division between sacred and profane time.[1]

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Borneo Setulang Community If the people of Setulang want to have fun, they have a party and dance. Young and old people have fun together. Our tribe's name is Oma'lung and we are part of the Dayak Keyah tribe. Setulang is a small village with about nine hundred people. My name is Kole Adjang. I live in Setulang. I work as the Head of the Setulang Forest Management Agency Today, we are going to Tana Olen by boat up the Setulang River. Setulang village's rice paddy fields are on the way. Every village family is allocated ten land plots. Each year, the family uses only one of them. The second year, we clear the second land plot, cutting and using fire which nurtures the soil. After a cycle of about ten years, we come back to the first plot. It is strictly forbidden to burn a new area in the forest for a paddy field. Villager people understand the agreement of their great grandparents. There is a designated area for rice paddy fields, an area specific for gathering housing and construction wood, and an area that's Tana Olen (forbidden forest) ... where it is forbidden to damage or log trees. Our neighbouring villages have no trees and the land is not healthy. Many timber companies have logged their land. But in our Tana Olen, the old growth trees are still there. Maybe a tourist would like to come and see the reality. We got all these fish with one throw of the net! Of course, we have to make some facilities, to make it easier for people who want to visit. Villagers will understand the ecotourists coming will help them earn money. So, then naturally they will keep protecting the forest. We don't know exactly what will happen in the future. Will the next generation keep our agreement, or will they damage, open new land or log? Perhaps serve their self interest? We hope that by example, our great grandchildren will also take care of our land and Tana Olen. All of the trees in Tana Olen, keep the water clean, and this makes us happy when we swim. Sometimes, we check that the trees in our Tana Olen, have not been illegaly logged. This is Ratan. Its good for making bags. This leaf is useful for many things ... a shelter, hats, a multipurpose cover. Setulang people love hunting. We use hunting platforms like this one up in the tree. We shoot the boar and then take it down the river to the village. This is one reason why we will always keep this forest. Scientists inform us, forests filter carbon from out of the air. They told us, a carbon trader would give us a fee for every tree ... that we do not cut. That's what the people told us. Is it true? I am still wondering? One tree has a large drum of water. If you cut the trees, the Setulang River will decrease and eventually stagnate. We have big trees like this, and even larger ones, that we protect. Anyone who cuts down the trees in Tana Olen will be punished. This is written policy and the traditional law of Setulang village. In my opinion global warming, will be getting hotter, and hotter and hotter. If there are no forests on Earth, maybe it will get hotter. So our local plan is going the right way, because conserving the forest is what the earth needs.

Plot

Stefan Viziru lives in Bucharest and works for the Romanian state. He lives with his wife Ioana and also has a mistress, Ileana, whom he met at a Midsummer celebration. Stefan is torn between his affection for both women and is at the same time on a spiritual quest. He wishes to discover a sacred time which stands independently from the historical time and the destructive developments in contemporary Europe. Stefan befriends several people who influence him. A philosophy teacher argues that Stefan is searching for the paradise of his childhood. When Stefan tries to provide refuge for a member of the Iron Guard, he is put in a prison camp and temporarily loses his job. Ileana becomes engaged to an officer who dies in a car accident, after which she leaves Bucharest.

Stefan's wife Ioana and their son die in the bombings of Bucharest in 1944. Stefan realises that he loves Ileana and sets out to find her. He travels around Europe and goes through a lot of searching. Eventually he finds her, on Midsummer's eve of 1948 in a forest in France. As they leave the forest together they are killed in a car accident.

Publication

The novel was first published by Éditions Gallimard in 1955 in a French translation by Alain Guillermou. The original Romanian version was published in 1971.[1] An English translation by Mac Linscott Ricketts and Mary Park Stevenson was published in 1978 through University of Notre Dame Press.[2]

Reception

Eliade himself considered The Forbidden Forest to be his best work.[1] It received little response from the academic world upon the initial publication, although the Swedish professor Stig Wikander wrote a positive review for Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten.[3] The novel received the Fantastic and Fantasy Award for best novel at Eurocon 1978 in Brussel.[4]

Chronicles of Culture reviewed the book in 1980:

Both fiction and epic, The Forbidden Forest is an exceptional book about war and peace. Not unlike the Russian masterpiece bearing that title, Eliade's novel transcends the particulars of its subject matter—in this case, Romania at the outset of the Second World War—to explore the agonies of man's condition, his inevitable recourse to violence as he fails to understand others and, above all, himself.[5]

Adaptations

Music

  • Romanian composer Serban Nichifor released the poem The Forbidden Forest – Homage to Mircea Eliade for piano (2021). The poem is based on the novel.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Ellis, Gehrett (2008). "Forbidden Forest, The (Forêt interdite)". In Sollars, Michael; Llamas Jennings, Arbolina (eds.). The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel: 1900 to the Present. New York City: Infobase Publishing. pp. 273–274. ISBN 9781438108360.
  2. ^ The forbidden forest. OCLC 3169321 – via WorldCat.
  3. ^ Timuş, Mihaela (2002). "Enigmaticul Stig Oscar Wikander". România Literară (in Romanian) (22). ISSN 1220-6318. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014.
  4. ^ "ESFS Awards: 1972 – 1979". esfs.info. European Science Fiction Society. 8 July 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  5. ^ JGP (March 1980). Chronicles of Culture. Rockford Institute. pp. 31–32. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Free sheet music : Nichifor, Serban - THE FORBIDDEN FOREST - HOMAGE TO MIRCEA ELIADE (Piano solo)".

Further reading

External links

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