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Bengal Nights: A Novel

Bengal Nights: A Novel

by Catherine Spencer (Translator), Mircea Eliade (Author), Catherine Spencer (Translator), Mircea Eliade (Author), Mircea Eliade (Author), Catherine Spencer (Translator)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 184
 Edition: 2nd ed.
 Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01 Apr 1995
ISBN 10: 0226204197
ISBN 13: 9780226204192

Media Reviews
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. --Literary Review
Author Bio
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 works of scholarship and fiction, including A History of Religious Ideas and ten novels.