Love in the Space of Aeternum, Embodied in Eliade’s Novel The Wedding in Heaven

This study researches two types of Eros, absolute space of eternity and love in the space of Aeternum through Eliade’s early novel The wedding in Heaven(1939). According to him the imperfection of love derives from main character’s corporeal aspect. As he assumes the verb love, a iubi in rumanian, is a antonym of the verb live, a trăi in rumanian, he determines the ambivalence of love through recalling his past. Eros completes itself by soaring itself into aeternum and marriage through memory and reminding in frame novel. Aeternum is originated from greek ancient god of greek mythology Aether which means immortal breath of god on the contrary of man’s mortal breath. Love abandons one’s own ego into identifying itself with the beloved and marriage stands for the beginning, end, highlighting moment of man’s life in rumanian literature. Marriage in heaven signifies escape from maze and entry into freedom in this novel and the death with the motif of Mioriţa(The Little Ewe Lamb) is a opportunity to ascend into aeternum and results into marriage. To be forgiven by Ileana he absorbs himself in novel and by doing this makes their love come true, he submits himself to universal creator and achieves marriage of Ileana's dream. Idea, which heavenly Eros seeks after through loving each other, discovers its harmonized status not in physical space but in ascending one. As Eliade asserts in his book Ordeal by Labyrinth the all possibilities to discover meaning of one’s existence indicates the possible salvation. Anyone who forgets one's ego and gives up one’s fruit of his actions, frees oneself from universal law of cause and effect and achieves salvation in aeternum.