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![]() In 1930 India, a young Romanian scholar begins an affair with a Bengali teenager, the daughter of his host and mentor. Here they are - the University of Chicago Press editions - a semi-autobiographical novel in orange and a memoir full of poems in violet:Īn abstract. ![]() At once blurring the boundary between memoir and poetry, the sacred and profane, traversing continents and decades to do it, in the end, both break your heart. Together, they recount two compelling yet competing versions of the same passionate love story that never saw its happy ending. These are Mircea Eliade’s 1933 Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi’s 1974 It Does Not Die. “I would like to be able to look Maitreyi in the eyes…” - Bengal Nights, 1933įor a powerful narrative set in postcolonial India, told by two powerful minds, one pair stands to be compared and contrasted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps she and the Jinni can rekindle their love. She also calls her engagement off, and hopes to travel to some warmer climates. ![]() In the end, she helps the Jinni recover after he tries to commit suicide by fountain. Add willing to take responsibility for her actions to Sophia's list of good qualities. He hadn't forced her, had never so much as pressured her" (20.88). Shell follow orders, unless she goes nuts and starts destroying things. Instead, he visits a man named Yehudah Schaalman, and has a Golem made: a clay person who looks and acts human. She miscarries and gets very sick, and while she's angry at the Jinni, she also shoulders some of the blame: "She wished she could blame the man who'd come to her balcony, but she couldn't, not in fairness. The Golem and the Jinni Summary A man named Otto Rotfeld wants a wife. Sophia also wants to see the world, and like a famous movie involving a jinni of a sort, the Jinni can show her.īut all he actually shows her are two nights of hot lovin', and then he ditches her. ![]() That's something both she and the Jinni have in common: absolutely no desire to socialize. Early on, we learn that Sophia, despite being from a wealthy family, isn't one for the society life: She says, "I can't stand these parties, they're so wearisome" (7.83). It's a shame, because she and the Jinni complement each other very well. Sophia Winston is the only character who could arguably be seen as a love interest in the story, although the Jinni loves her as much as the Golem loves Michael-in other words, not much. Sophia Winston Real Housewife of the 19th Century ![]() |