Eliade, a major figure in the scholarly study of world religions, tells his version of younger days. Eliade was the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, including a history of religious ideas and ten novels. At once horrifying and deeply moving, eliade s story repeats the patterns of european engagement with india even as it exposes and condemns them. Jun 11, 2019 bengal nights mircea eliade the university of chicago press. 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. Album historically speaking the duke remastered 2014. Buy bengal nights book online at low prices in india bengal. May 08, 1994 bengal nights recreates eliade s indian romance in spades. A novel, mircea eliade is published by university of chicago press. Mircea, a romantic western male, thinks troubadour thoughts of siege and conquest. Bengal nights download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Bengal nights by mircea eliade ebook friends of pdf. Mircea eliade has 289 books on goodreads with 158622 ratings. Adapted from mircea eliade by bryan rennie in the 1998 routledge encyclopedia of philosophy.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. February 24 1907 april 22, 1986 was a romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the university of chicago his theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his twovolume. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter. Bengal nights by mircea eliade, april 1, 1995, university of chicago press edition, paperback in english new ed edition. Set in 1930s calcutta, this is a roman a clef of remarkable intimacy. With hugh grant, shabana azmi, supriya pathak, john hurt.
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. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. Bengal nights book saint paul public library bibliocommons. Sep 22, 2019 bengal nights mircea eliade the university of chicago press. Invaluable for the insight it offers into eliades life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. Bengal nights by mircea eliade, 1994, university of chicago press edition, in english university of chicago press ed. The copies on the back of the two paperback editions read thus. Mircea eliade was born in bucharest, romania on march 1907. Although romanian records give his date of birth as 28 february, this is according to the julian calendar, since the gregorian calendar was not adopted in romania until 1924. Bengal nights mircea eliade bok 9780226204185 bokus. The untold story behind the publishing of maitreyi. Mircea eliade simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In the quest mircea eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. A british engineer becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his indian employers eldest daughter.
Bengal nights mircea eliade the university of chicago press. What happened in eliade s office was a bit puzzling. Theyve looked at love from both sides now chicago tribune. Bengal nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of india informed by cleareyed understanding. Fiction, eliade, mircea, 19071986, maitraye devi, 1914, romanian fiction publisher university of chicago press.
Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. Apr 18, 2020 mircea eliade, historian of religions, phenomenologist of religion, and author of novels, novellas, and short stories. She requested that i take her to mircea eliades mead theological seminary office. At once horrifying and deeply moving, eliades story repeats the patterns of european engagement with india even as it exposes and condemns them. Its a flamboyantly impassioned sorrows of young mircea, camouflaged to use a word he often pressed into service as a novel. What happened in eliades office was a bit puzzling. A twentysomething romanian student with fascist associations bengal nights by mircea eliade happens to be quite fluent in french and has a bengal nights by mircea eliade eliad english arrives in calcutta in british india to study with a renowned bengali scholar. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It is based on the love story that took place between eliade and the female main character, maitreyi, an indian woman, but it has also a lot of realistic elements that describe their culture, traditions and way of.
A novel, eliade, spencer university of chicago press. A counter to eliade s fantasies, it is also a moving story of what happens. A case of east meets west with all the joys and woes that such encounters. It is a fictionalized account of the love story between eliade, who was visiting india at the time, and the young maitreyi devi protegee of the great bengali poet rabindranath tagore, who became a famous writer herself. Buy bengal nights book online at low prices in india. Mircea eliades pedestrian bengal nights is an earlymiddleaged mans extremely softcore paedophilic sexual fantasy based on his youthful myopic brush with a culture much deeper than his own and with a young woman far wiser at sixteen than he ever got to be. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that. Avery distinguished service professor in the divinity school and in the committee on social thought at the university of chicago.
Mircea eliade a semiautobiographical romance between a french engineer and the daughter of a hindu family with which he stayed in india. She requested that i take her to mircea eliade s mead theological seminary office. A novel new edition by eliade, mircea, spencer, catherine isbn. Originally published in romanian in, this semiautobiographical novel by the world. Mircea eliade romanian religious historian and author. Invaluable for the insight it offers into eliade s life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power. The narrator, also named mircea, is a young draftsman. From gautama buddha to the triumph of christianity. He is jealous of tagore, so the fictional maitreyi, halfconquered, brings him a lock of the sages hair to. Horizons of the exotic and colonial selffashioning in mircea eliades bengal nights and maitreyi devis na hanyate. Click download or read online button to get mircea eliade book now. Avery distinguished service professor in the divinity school and the committee on social thought at the university of chicago.
Bengal nights recreates eliades indian romance in spades. But several days later a bengali faculty member told me about eliades book and their earlier love. Bengal nights by eliade, mircea, 1907publication date 1994 topics eliade, mircea, 1907, maitraye devi, 1914publisher. Maitreyi devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year mircea eliade, then twentythree, came to calcutta to study with her father. At once horrifying and deeply moving, eliades story repeats. Postcolonial recollections of a colonial encounter. A vibrantly poetic love story, bengal nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young mans self discovery. Eliade was one of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and one of the worlds foremost interpreters of religious symbolism and myth. Translated into french in 1950, bengal nights was an immediate critical. Bengal nights, by mircea eliade, by mircea eliade, translated from the french by catherine spencer. Mircea eliade download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. May 15, 2019 bengal nights by mircea eliade, 1994, university of chicago press edition, in english university of chicago press ed.
But several days later a bengali faculty member told me about eliade s book and their earlier love. Mircea eliade, from bengal nights you never know how one thing will lead to another. Mircea eliade books list of books by author mircea eliade. Aug 12, 2015 mircea eliades pedestrian bengal nights is an earlymiddleaged mans extremely softcore paedophilic sexual fantasy based on his youthful myopic brush with a culture much deeper than his own and with a young woman far wiser at sixteen than he ever got to be.
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