by Mircea Eliade · Gallimard Education · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070370870
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«Nuit Bengali» is the novel by Mircea Eliade, published by Gallimard Education in paperback (256 pages, in French).
Allan, a young European engineer, works in India and faces a cultural reality very different from his own. The contrast between worlds leads him to a personal experience that questions his convictions and his way of understanding human relationships.
The novel «Nuit Bengali» first appeared in Romanian as «Maitreyi» in 1933; this French edition, from 1979, belongs to the Folio collection (no. 1087).
A classic of twentieth-century Romanian literature, for readers interested in the clash between cultures and stories set in India.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
