In part a counter to eliades fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and lasting regrets. In part a counter to eliades fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the maitreyi, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Precocious, a poet, a philosophers daughter, maitreyi devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when. Maitreyi devi bengali poet, litterateur, tagore protege. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. But her style departs in a drastic way from eliades straightforward prose. Later, i read maitreyi devi s book john hurt and the other european cast members have pretty much phoned in their performances. Proud of her intelligence, maitreyi devis father had provided her with a fine and, for that time, remarkably liberal education and encouraged. More than forty years passed before devi read bengal nights, the novel eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases, even her given name, bringing back episodes and feelings she had spent decades trying to forget. She also denies that their affair led to beatings and disgrace. What startled the readers was maitreyis bold, unabashed.
Devi was not aware of the book and the name of main character being maitreyi while eliads name was changed to allan. Pdf maitreyi book by mircea eliade free download 200 pages. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. A romance by maitreyi devi 1995 0401 maitreyi devi. Read together with eliades bengal nights, devi s romance is a powerful study of what happens when the oppositions between innocence and experience, enchantment and disillusion, and cultural difference and colonial arrogance collide. In this essay, i will use the english titles to refer to the two novels. In part a counter to eliades fantasies, the book is also.
Burumas essays are focused clearly to a central concept, much less advance one. Precocious, a poet, a philosophers daughter, maitreyi devi was six. To tell about the literary value, i have to tell the fluency and the storytelling style of the novel. The untold story behind the publishing of maitreyi devi.
The first edition of the novel was published in 1974, and was written by maitreyi devi. Each book is remarkable in its own very different way but by itself. The main characters of this romance, cultural story are. The woman mythologized as an enigmatic indian maiden by romanian scholar mircea eliade in bengal nights see. For the sensual, tragic maitreyi from eliades novel reveals herself as a woman with her feet down to earth and a lot of common sense. Maitreyi devi was a bengaliborn indian poet and novelist born in 1914. Given the cultural constraints, maitreyi devi denied claims of a sexual affair between her and eliade during the latters sojourn in british india. Aug 11, 2000 a book of essays is almost by definition thematically diffuse, and not all of mr. This is a wonderful novel on young love and its aftermath. Her first book of verse appeared when she was sixteen, with a preface by rabindranath tagore. It changes your views on life, intimacy and everything, really. In 1974, maitreyi published her own version of the affair in bengali, na hanyate title refers to the soul that cannot be killed.
Precocious, a poet, a philosophers daughter, maitreyi devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when mircea eliade came to calcutta to study with her father. An indian writer gives her version of the romance which mircea eliade, the romanian writer, described in his novel, bengal nights. The first edition of the novel was published in january 1st 1933, and was written by mircea eliade. A romance, maitreyi devi is published by university of chicago press. The book was published in multiple languages including romanian, consists of 200 pages and is available in paperback format. Maitreyi devi and mircea eliade scholarworks university of. Maitreyi devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year mircea eliade, then twentythree, came to calcutta to study with her father. I had heard that the female protagonist of the book, maitreyi, wrote herself a novel as a response to eliades maitreyi and bengal nights. In 1974, devi s semiautobiographical novel in bengali albeit with a sanskrit title na hanyate was published. Jun 01, 2008 today i am curious about something i read about a long ago but forgot, romanian anthropologist mircea eliades 19071986 book bengali nights 1994 that was published in english only after her beloved maitreyi devis 19141990 death. After all, her first book of poems was published, with a preface by rabindranath tagore, when she was 16. An engaging story from a talented and skillful poet, philosopher, and storyteller having her say about the tangled threads. The copies on the back of the two paperback editions read thus.
She wrote in despairing terms, look at the prank fate has played on me. The writer received sahitya akademi award for this novel in 1976. She had read the book in romanian in her home town in eastern romanias iasi, and. The main characters of this european literature, romanian literature story are allan, maitreyi devi. A romance, was written as a response to bengal nights, and maitreyi devi described the romance and the cultural tensions resulted from it.
Hanyate, critics have been discussing her book in relation to mircea eliades. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 264 pages and is available in paperback format. In part a counter to eliades fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and lasting. A romance by maitreyi devi 19950401 paperback 1656 by maitreyi devi. Na hanyate, the original title of the bengali version of devis book, is a. It tells of the painful romance, of the life she lived after it and of her pilgrimage to confront the past over a book strewn library table. Popular quotes yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. It catapulted her to fame and soon after, bagged her the prestigious sahitya akademi award. Alain, eliades persona in the story, comes to take up residence with an indian family who have a sublime, mysteriously beautiful daughter, maitreyi. A romance, was written as a response to bengal nights, and maitreyi devi described the. A romance, devi the chicago distribution center is temporarily closed. Proud of her intelligence, maitreyi devis father had provided her with a fine and, for that time, remarkably liberal education and encouraged his brilliant foreign student, eliade, to study with her. Proud of her intelligence, maitreyi devi s father had provided her with a fine and, for that time, remarkably liberal education and encouraged his.
In 1974, devis semiautobiographical novel in bengali albeit with a sanskrit title na hanyate was published. Here a bornpoet is at the height of her powers and maturity and yet is still that vulnerable, joyful sixteenyearold girl. Free download or read online maitreyi pdf epub book. Set in 1930s calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the worldrenowned scholar mircea eliade details the passionate love affair of alain, a young. A romance new edition by devi, maitreyi, devi, maitreyi isbn.
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