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Bengal Nights
Mircea Eliade
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Description for Bengal Nights
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
Set in 1930s Calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate love affair of Alain, a young French engineer, and Maitreyi, the daughter of his Indian employer. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self-discovery. Over forty years passed before the real Maitreyi Devi read Eliade's erotically charged novel and wrote her response, It Does Not Die.
Set in 1930s Calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate love affair of Alain, a young French engineer, and Maitreyi, the daughter of his Indian employer. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self-discovery. Over forty years passed before the real Maitreyi Devi read Eliade's erotically charged novel and wrote her response, It Does Not Die.
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
184
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226204192
SKU
V9780226204192
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99-50
About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the world's foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Eliade was the author of many ... Read more
Reviews for Bengal Nights
Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter. It is enough to make stones weep.
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