Mircea Eliade's novels and studies
By Reyachan
@Reyachan (589)
Romania
December 3, 2009 6:40am CST
I start this conversation with not many hopes of someone answering it because I believe that although Eliade was a great person and wrote exceptional literary works, not many know of them or have read them.
I personally love all his work. His fantastic stories were the ones that opened the fiction literary universe for me. And his novels about the period between the two world wars have a certain strenght and aura i've never found in any literary work before.
I was very surprised, while reading Anne Rices' Vampire Crhonicles to discover she actually read Eliade and appreciated his work.
Now, for my questions:
How many of you know that he is Romanian? Have you ever heard of him, or even read anything written by him? If so, what did you like/dislike in his texts? How did you discover him as an author?
6 responses
@shibham (16977)
• India
3 Dec 09
hi reya. once i found "BENGAL NIGHTS" in one of my friends book shelf. he is not interested to read it but his father was a great reader even he had a vastt knowledge world wide. but sorry to his son
he offered me to read that book. i did not know anything about that writer still then. but u know i am a good reader, so i start reading and automaticaly it begins to attract me. wow.... amazing writings. how a person can write these type of thoughts? realy surprised.
sorry friend. that was the first and last novel that i have read from mircea eliade. i give my honor to him. thanks that u are also a romanian.
he offered me to read that book. i did not know anything about that writer still then. but u know i am a good reader, so i start reading and automaticaly it begins to attract me. wow.... amazing writings. how a person can write these type of thoughts? realy surprised.
sorry friend. that was the first and last novel that i have read from mircea eliade. i give my honor to him. thanks that u are also a romanian. @Reyachan (589)
• Romania
3 Dec 09
Thank you so much for your answer , shibham! I didn't even dare to hope someone form India would respond to my discussion. You know, Eliade lived a few years in India and he learned a lot from there. Those years lived there marked his later works a lot!
Besides that, the novel "Maitreyi" is considered to be his best work. It tells about the love story between him and an indian girl, a love that ended up bad for the both of them.
The story is very touching and knowing it is real gives it even more stregth.
Also, Maitreyi Deva wrote her own version of there love story in the form of the novel "It does not die". I envy you a little because I'm sure your understanding of your own culture and customs could make the lecture of these two novels much more impressive than they ever could for me! For me they are exotique, for you they are very real.
I stringly advise you to read them if you can find them!
Here's a picture of the novel Maitreyi wrote :
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@shibham (16977)
• India
3 Dec 09
i know it reya that he was a highly connected with indian culture. unfortunately i have not read MAITRAYE. but as i have read bengal nights, i discovered him as a person who dedicated some spans of his life for indian culture. so i am happy with u bcoz u are also a romanian. have u ever read that novel? if u then u can easily find out something about india. thanks
@AndyTeam (13)
• Italy
30 Dec 09
I read Eliade,is one of my favorite writers!I discovered him in "Maitreyi" and right after,I read her version,"It does not die",which also impressed me!It is fascinating to read about a love story on display in two points of view so different!Eliade was a philosopher,and this apparent in his book!
One of his quotes about women:"she always invites us to see her as she wants"
He was a great teacher,he left us a great cultural legacy!Department of History of Religions of the Chicago University was founded by him and bears his name!
@jorje89 (40)
• Romania
2 Sep 10
hey reya! it's funny finding such discussions on an english site like this one. It gives Romania a positive boost of publicity. I am Romanian, so i have heard of Mircea Eliade, i actually studied him in highschool. He was an awesome writter with an exceptional way of thinking.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
2 Mar 11
I'm from Romania and I can say that I found on Mircea Eliade, my mentor throughout the school, and even now I can not say it is not. I've read almost all the work, both belletristic, and specialty books and helped me understand more. Teenage guys really should read "Myopic Adolescent Novel. "
@mohanrohal (1)
• India
18 Mar 11
I finished the novel "bengal nights" yesterday only, it touched my heart and changed the way i saw relation between man and women.Now i want to read the another version of the story "it does not die". M.ROHAL
