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Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent
Mircea Eliade
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Description for Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent
Paperback. A seminal novel by one of Romania's most respected writers and intellectuals An early exploration of adolescence, first love and burning ambition. Num Pages: Black and white. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 272 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 17, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his other classmates, and that he is prepared to give up everything he holds dear in order to do so. The novel is written in a number of notebooks - ... Read more
The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 17, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his other classmates, and that he is prepared to give up everything he holds dear in order to do so. The novel is written in a number of notebooks - ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Istros Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908236210
SKU
V9781908236210
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About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His literary works belong to the fantastic and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ( La Nuit Bengali ... Read more
Reviews for Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent
Nick Lezard's choice, The Guardian '. . .playful, ludicrous and very good teen journal, in English for the first time' 'Eliade may be describing the life of a student in a Romanian lyc e of almost a century ago, but anyone who has ever been at school, full of ideals but also too shy ... Read more