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Originally published in romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar mircea eliade details the passionate awakenings of alain, an ambitious young french engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a european fascination with the. Mircea eliade, historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and author of novels, novellas, and short stories. While the writing is definitely accurate for the thoughts of a young observant boy, it doesnt make for fascinating reading. Maitreyi devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year mircea eliade, then twentythree, came to calcutta to study with her father. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. I had heard that the female protagonist of the book, maitreyi, wrote herself a novel as a response to eliade s maitreyi and bengal nights. Click download or read online button to get bengal nights book now. Eliade was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the worlds foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Bengal nights is a semiautobiographical piece of literature based around the time eliade spent in calcutta at surendranath dasgupta, maitreyi devis fathers house.
Lending tangible reality to this idea, at the start of bengal nights eliade subjects his alter ego to a bout of malaria that scrambles his consciousness of space and time eliade himself suffered. A novel is not about a great love shared by two individuals from different cultures that ends tragically. I first read it in my high school years as part of the romanian literature curriculum and it was love at first page. A twentysomething romanian student with fascist associations bengal nights by mircea eliade happens to be quite fluent in french and has a bengal nights by mircea eliade eliad english arrives in calcutta in british india to study with a renowned bengali scholar. With hugh grant, shabana azmi, supriya pathak, john hurt. You can prevent a forward search attack on a public key cryptosystem by padding with random bits. After reading the summary on goodreads, i was quite intrigued, but what drove me nuts was the fact that this book was not available anywhere. Set in 1930s calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the worldrenowned scholar mircea eliade details the passionate love affair of alain. Bengal nights, by mircea eliade, by mircea eliade, translated from the french by catherine spencer. Originally published in romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar mircea eliade details the passionate awakenings of alain, an ambitious young french engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full.
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Eliade, a major figure in the scholarly study of world religions, tells his version of younger days. As their passion ignites, the eastmeetswest clash of cultures leads to. It is based on the love story that took place between eliade and the female main character, maitreyi, an indian woman, but it has also a lot of realistic elements that describe their culture, traditions and way of living. Originally published in romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar mircea eliade. Eliade 19071986, a major figure in the scholarly study of world religions, tells his version.
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