![]() 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. ![]()
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