Bengal Nights
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780226204185 (0226204189)
Publish date: April 16th 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Read For School,
Romance,
Philosophy,
India,
Romanian Literature,
Romania
Maitreyi is a memoir about the love between Mircea Eliade and an Indian girl named, well, Maitreyi. Here's a little context: Although he is named Alain in the book, the story is real and Eliade copies from his own journals. The real-life Maitreyi learns about the book years later, and learns about w...
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