Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
176
Utgivningsdatum
2016-04-11
Förlag
Istros Books
Översättare
Christopher Moncrieff, Christopher Bartholomew
Illustratör/Fotograf
Black and white
Illustrationer
Black and white
Dimensioner
196 x 127 x 15 mm
Vikt
218 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
21:B&W 5.06 x 7.81 in or 198 x 129 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781908236210

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

av Mircea Eliade
Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-04-11
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The short-sighted adolescent is a passionate reader who takes various cultural figures as models, trying to emulate both their lives or their works. The pupil protagonist is a poor student, who likes science and reads a lot of books, sometimes staying up all night to do so. At the age of 17, he decides to write a novel to demonstrate to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his other classmates, and that he is prepared to give up everything he holds dear in order to do so. The novel is written in a number of notebooks - the 'diary' of the title - but our myopic hero ultimately fails 3 subjects and has to repeat the school year. Set in the Romanian capital in the early 20th century, from the perspective of a schoolboy's diary of his daily life, - his teachers, his classmates' academic and amorous rivalries, his first sexual experiences - we are introduced to the themes of religion, self-knowledge, erotic sensibility, artistic creation and otherness, ideas which would preoccupy him until the end of his life. Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent was written by the young Mircea Eliade - one of Romania's greatest writers and intellectuals. The book can be viewed as an early 20th century 'Catcher in the Rye', and allows us an intimate view of the developing genius, whose literary output has been neglected in the English language for too long.
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"It's hard to believe the Romanian academic was a teen when he wrote this clever novel." --Guradian

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Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His literary works belong to the fantastic and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi ("La Nuit Bengali" or "Bengal Nights"), Noaptea de Sanziene ("The Forbidden Forest"), Isabel si apele diavolului ("Isabel and the Devil's Waters") and Romanul Adolescentului Miop ("Diary of the Short-Sighted Adolescent"), the novellas Domnisoara Christina ("Miss Christina") and Tinerete fara tinerete ("Youth Without Youth"), and the short stories Secretul doctorului Honigberger ("The Secret of Dr. Honigberger") and La Tiganci ("With the Gypsy Girls").

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