The End of Times. Time and redemption in the fictions of Mircea Eliade and Michel Tournier

Literature rooted in myth, the prose of the two writers is structured around the downfall-redemption axis. In their view, the adamic fall means living in Time. Approached from the angle of primordial authenticity, existing intime is practically an ontological non-entity, which means that historical existence is devoid of the authentic, profound and plenary dimension of the paradisiacal beginnings of humanity, any sacred reference being eliminated. Oblivion, amnesia, slumber, rootlessness are parameters of this desacralised world that is nevertheless offered a chance of redemption through the initiatic regaining of adamic memory