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Youth without Youth
Mircea Eliade
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Description for Youth without Youth
Paperback. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history - a man who thought his life was over - lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy. Translator(s): Ricketts, Mac Linscott. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FH; FJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history - a man who thought his life was over - lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade's novella. ... Read more
This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history - a man who thought his life was over - lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity. At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade's novella. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226204154
SKU
V9780226204154
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About Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade (1907 - 86) was a Romanian philosopher and historian of religions who moved to Chicago in 1957. His works include The Sacred and the Profane and A History of Religious Ideas. Mac Linscott Ricketts is professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Louisburg College.
Reviews for Youth without Youth
"Comparisons with Borges, Cortazar, Calvino, and others...are beside the point. Eliade was always out on a limb of his own." - New York Times "I was excited to discover in this tale by Eliade the key themes that I most hope to understand better: time, consciousness, and the dream-like basis of reality. For me it is indeed a return to ... Read more