Bengal Nights Mircea Eliade The University of Chicago Press. Mircea Eliade ( ) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the. The book Bengal Nights: A Novel, Mircea Eliade is published by University of Chicago Press. BENGAL NIGHTS. User Review – Jane Doe – Kirkus. Eliade (), a major figure in the scholarly study of world religions, tells his version of younger days.
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Other editions – View all Bengal Nights: The brilliance of the novel is that, despite the intense focus on love and pain, it teaches so much about India and Britain at the time in which it set s.
Not on a huge scale, fortunately, but the fact that it still does is flabbergasting.
Andreea rated it did nlghts like it May 24, I shall rate it in the future, when I may be less subjective. To ask other readers questions about Bengal Nightsplease sign up.
This is one of the best Romanian books I’ve read, an impressive and interesting book.
Inthe University of Chicago Press published the two works in English as companion volumes. Toate trei ocupa un loc special in sufletul meu.
Lists with This Book. It is not just an interesting love story between a European and an Indian girl, but also an opportunity to think about philosophy, communicating across cultures and the clash that sometimes replaces dialogue.
I actually think that this book is one of very few that I’m really glad that it is included in the scholarly program, because, to be honest, the other books and authors are really lame.
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BENGAL NIGHTS by Mircea Eliade | Kirkus Reviews
A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage bengaal in the wake of a young man’s self discovery. Additionally, the sexual relationship between Alain and Maitreya is quite explicitly stated, and this was Calcutta in the s, so I can only assume that it was a more conservative time than it is now. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade’s life and thought, it is a mirceaa of great intellectual and emotional power.
View all 17 comments. Mircea Eliade was a worldwide famous scholar, whose knowledge of the religions of the world gained him respect and is in evidence in this work.
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Meditation would be just one. The story-line was somehow good but I hated each and everyone in it: Will they then understand my suffering? But I’m so intrigued to imagine how this book is taught in Romanian high schools.
Recomandata la orice varsta, dar mai ales in adolescenta. Oh and byy the real tragedy in the end poor Allan. 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.
Murcea these differences will divide them, they were coming from different worlds which will remain so until nowadays.
I was planning on reading this book for a very long time and now that we were asked to read it for our Romanian class I thought that this was the perfect opportunity. Maitreyi by Mircea Eliade. Her younger sister learns about this and other shenanigans.
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Alain is torn between his life as a privileged white man in India and his intrigue for this other exotic life. Recomandata la orice va Am crezut ca o tin minte din adolescenta, cand am citit-o prima data, dar nu mai tineam minte mare lucru in afara de faptul ca m-a marcat.
In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes [1]an English translation, of MayitreyiBengal Nights did not appear until As the love story develops, we make inroads into Indian philosophy, customs and habits.
Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade’s life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. A Novel Mircea Eliade Limited preview –