Eliade, the philosopher, practices what he preaches. While other novels examine the "big picture" (society, war, politics), Eliade zooms in. He spends three pages describing the sensation of a mosquito bite on his ankle during an exam. He spends five pages on the texture of a wooden desk. This is proto-phenomenology (e.g., Husserl and Merleau-Ponty).
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