The night of San Juan, title of the most important novel of Mircea Eliade, corresponds, in the original Romanian to Noaptea of Sânziene to "night of the fairies", held on June 23 (summer solstice), the that is traditionally credited a prophetic character, able to predict the fate or misfortune that fate in store for the year. Under the magic of this mystery, waiting for that revelation, heterogeneous network develops the physical and human landscape of this novel, which covers a period of 12 years, a perfect cycle, closed and homologous to the cosmic cycles. The magic of the work center is Bucharest, a city full of symbols of initiation and inexhaustible source of myth, where, in the Baneasa forest, know the players, Stefan and Ileana. Against this background it is projected the atmosphere, the mood of the young intellectuals of the interwar Romania, the collective tension that led to the dictatorship of the Iron Guard, World War, the entry of the Russians and the seizure of power by the Communists with the consequent repression and exile. The attitude toward the inevitability of history and time, narrative fabric shaft reveals here all their symbolic significance for humans, marking the life and romantic relationships of the characters in the novel, immersed in a whirlwind that evokes with unforgettable realism, but without lack of humor and irony, the tragedy of Eastern Europe, condemned the indifference of the West, to be, and never subject of the story.