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It Does Not Die
Maitreyi Devi
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Description for It Does Not Die
Paperback. An account of the experiences of Maitreyi Devi, the highly educated Indian daughter of an intellectual father who fell in love with a female student staying at her home in the 1930s. the book was written as a response to Bengal Nights, by Mircea Eliade, the young student who had stayed with the family in Calcutta. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to Calcutta to study with her father. More than forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, the novel Eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases, even her given name, bringing back episodes and feelings she had spent decades trying to forget. It Does Not Die is Devi's response. In part a counter to Eliade's fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and ... Read more
Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to Calcutta to study with her father. More than forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, the novel Eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases, even her given name, bringing back episodes and feelings she had spent decades trying to forget. It Does Not Die is Devi's response. In part a counter to Eliade's fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226143651
SKU
V9780226143651
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