Over forty years passed before the real Maitreyi Devi read Eliade’s erotically charged novel and wrote her response, It Does Not Die.Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year Mircea Eliade, then twenty-three, came to Calcutta to study with her father. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man’s self-discovery. Set in 1930’s Calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate love affair of Alain, a young romanian novelist , and Maitreyi, the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. The copies on the back of the two paperback editions read thus: “Zadarnic muscam perna,zadarnic ma loveam sa nu tip.Spuneam intruna:”maitreyi maitreyi, maitreyi”īengal Nights by Mircea Eliade and It Does Not Die by Maitreyi Devi were released in 1994 by the University of Chicago Press as companion volumes depicting two sides of a romance. “Iti mai amintesti de mine, maitreyi? Si daca da, ai putut sa ma ierti?”
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