CHRISTINA
[NOVEL]
“Christina, adapte d’un roman de Mircea Eliade, Mademoiselle Christina, est une histoire de
vampire qui se deroule en 1935 en Roumainie dans une grande maison de la plaine valque et qui
beute de facon tres intrigante: Simina, la seconde fille de la maitresse de maison, ne cesse de
parler au present de sa tante Christina, qu’elle n’a pas pu connaitre, car cette derniere est morte
depuis longtemps!”
“In the same year Eliade was appointed associate professor in the faculty of letters at Bucharest
University. In 1934 he married Nina Mares; she died of cancer in 1944. After publishing
DOMNISOARA CHRISTINA (1936) Eliade was accused of pornography and dismissed from his
office for a short time. The protagonist in the novel, based on Rumanian folk stories, was a
strigoi, a ghost or vampire. The story dealt with the meaning of erotic life and death in human
life.”
“The Rumanian historian Mircea Eliade, with its Miss. Cristina realizes one splendid connubio
between vampirico folclore and novel; young died woman is the history of love of one gives
beyond vent' years and become vampiro: Egor shook, but it was not more a spasimo than terror,
but the eagerness of all the its body, its struggersi delirious in the wait of the supreme pleasure.
Its meat was unravelled driven crazy, because the voluttà the soffocava, humiliated it. The mouth
of Christina had the sapore of the dream fruits, the taste of every forbidden, cursed drunkness. In
the most diabolic imaginations of love stillava much poison, much dew. Between the arms of
Christina Egor it felt the joys more fills up, joined to one celestial dissipation, one complete fusion
and total. Incesto, crime, madness. Lover, sister, angel... All he collected himself and he stirred
himself close to that heated meat and however without life... (Mircea Eliade, Miss. Christina, Jaka
Book, 1984, p. 175).
“It was his first fantastic novel, after he had already drawn attention for social-critical works
such as Huliganii (Hooligan) in 1935 and with his first religio-historical studies.Conditions in
Huliganii the lack of perspectives of the young intellectual ones in a still to a large extent
backward country in the center of the action, then wanted to work on Eliade with Domnisoara
Christina an element from the folklore evenly that country, i.e. the Vampir. But in the course of
the work from the history of the love of a young woman short simple in the reason and, who is
since their death a Vampir, to one living person a novel divided on several levels, that into a banal
everyday life world foreigner and uncanny one to break in leaves established second, stranger and
in the familiar world. The minute of this novel fell into a phase, in which itself Eliade intensively
with the Indian philosophy busy and which introduced the end of its early, essentially literary
activity fixed on Romania.”
1935, Domnisoara Christina. Paris: L’Herne 1978. (French introduction by Eliade, 1978.). RR
pp.1045-1052. In Mystic Stories: The Sacred and Profane. Tr. Ana Cartianu, edited by Kurt
Treptow. Classics of Romanian Literature Series, Vol. II. Boulder: East European Monographs,
1992.
Eliade, Mircea. "Miss Christina" In: Mystic Stories . Romania: Edituda Minerva, East European
Monographs. Distributed in the US by Columbia University Press, 1993.
Abstract: Translated into English by Ana Cartianu.
A slow moving, but lovely and atmospheric story incorporating a great deal Romanian vampire
lore.
Eliade did not write the script for the radio serial, but did the following year (1981) write the
libretto for an opera by Romanian composer Serban Nichifor based on the novel. In 1992 a film
made for Romanian television, directed by Viorel Sergovici, greatly diluted the disturbing erotic
elements of the original novel. [YouTube viewers] “The movie was made for television, and it is
not very spectacular. Eliade's novel is more passional, more terrifying and mysterious. Simina is 9
years old, and she is acting like a sado-maso prodigy child. They choose here an older actress
because it was easier to make the delicate shootings.”
Sent Vintilescu Valentina Nicola din 30 noiembrie 2006, 17:35 30 November 2006, 17:35
Domnisoara Christina Miss Christina
“Miss Christina, an erotic fantasy novel, published in 1936, increasing from Romanian folklore:
a ghost story, in a world fallen prey to curse, which saves a young one, killing the second time
strigoiul with an iron drug implanted in the heart. In Mircea Eliade's novel, which is trying
absolutului achieving woman-Miss Christina, who, on the other shore, try adventure with destiny
Egor representing land-life point of muritorilor.Pe to exercise evil influence, negatively affecting
his Egor, adventure shipwreck.
At the mansion of Moscu of Delta Plain, extraordinary things happen, like death overnight of
cattle lost, the servants; Simina, the little girl is behaving like a witch, Sanda, big girl and Mrs.
Moscu states have weird, guests arriving at the hall: Egor painter. Sanda, the daughter of a Mrs
Moscu, a student in Bucharest, is in love with Egor, to which the mansion and invited her mother-
vaduva.Conacul but was haunted by the ghost, Miss Christina, sister of Mrs Moscu, killed during
Rascoalei in 1907.
“After dinner, Egor and Nazarie, while I talk in his room Egor feel the presence of a ghost that
wander without vazut.Intr be a time of great horror that I try both, sorbira glasses of cognac for
not was easy:
"To feel like someone is approaching and you are ready to listen, someone you do not see him,
but we feel this beating in the blood and recognize flashes in your eye ..."
Simina, which had a special force, as Egor insisted be left singur.Asa held a second meeting of
the two, this time Christine room, room in which there is a splendid picture of the famous
painting by Egor Mirea.Pictorul falls prey to the erotic passion Miss defending him again in the
dream, sleep becomes a nightmare and that all who appear in her dream Christina dominate.
This first meeting specifies shades semnificative.Christina refusing itself as a ghost and try
people in the world back on a path of love normale.Dorintele women are a woman, but remains
suspended between Christina and steam meats, uncertain form, hallucinating. Simina Contain art
seduction is as violent as her master, she becomes even Christina into a variant subsistence.
Refusing love, Egor transa.Dupa what comes out of the blood found in the wound clocoteste
Christina, Egor confirm their belief that she is dead and no rupture occurs before that Miss
Christina rosteasca to a curse: "I will seek a life without find me! You will die younger, resulting in
grave this strand of hair ... "
Wake of the hallucination, Egor lamp upside down, producing a large fire at manor. He breaks
portrait Christine, one located on Simina infirm and the basement according to popular tradition,
stick a plow in the body of Christina, the obsession with a voice that him shout "Egor! Egor ... ..."
Sanda dies slowly, and especially nurse lady Moscu finally fall in nebunie.Totul break time back
runs, people begin to behave like in 1907, involved the same winds of distress, despair and
powerless rage.
The final victory, the hero sacrificing himself insusi.Singur curse with nostalgia and Christine,
who already hard, Egor muritorul remains that losing a beat.
ORIGINATION: France Culture, Paris.
DURATION: June 9-20, 1980 (10 episodes).
PERSONNEL: Jean-Pierre Colas (director), Miron Niculescu (scriptwriter).
CAST: Clement Bairam, Pascale de Boysson, Berthe Chernel, Jacqueline Danno, Rosine Favey, Yves Peneau,
Laurent Terzieff, Jean Topart.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: Unknown.
[CHRONOLOGY]
CHRISTINA (FRANCE CULTURE, PARIS)
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June 9, 1980 [1]
June 10, 1980 [2]
June 11, 1980 [3]
June 12, 1980 [4]
June 13, 1980 [5]
June 16, 1980 [6]
June 17, 1980 [7]
June 18, 1980 [8]
June 19, 1980 [9]
June 20, 1980 [10]