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ISBN
9780226204192
Publication Year
1995
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Bengal Nights-A Novel
Item Height
215mm
Author
Mircea Eliade, Catherine Spencer
Publisher
T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Topic
Books
Item Width
139mm
Item Weight
250 g
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman a clef of remarkable intimacy. 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 mysterious subcontinent. Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair. A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.

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T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
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9780226204192
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Book Title
Bengal Nights-A Novel
Author
Mircea Eliade, Catherine Spencer
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1995
Number of Pages
184 Pages

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Item Height
215mm
Item Width
139mm
Item Weight
250 g

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Mircea Eliade, Catherine Spencer
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United States

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