The head of the family is very crossed when he finds out that he had been betrayed, as he sees it. Alain is torn between his life as a privileged white man in India and his intrigue for this other exotic life. As vrea ca eseurile de 3 pagini pe care le scriem despre Elia As vrea ca atunci cand ni se preda cartea asta la scoala sa ni se spuna ce om de cacat ii allan, ce abuz de putere face vrajind o fata de jumatatea varstei lui, ce orientalism extrem are in modul in care prezinta cultura indiana ca ceva exotic si primitiv, ce sexist ii modul in care se foloseste de femei si cumva tot el ii victima desi o duce bine-mersi folosindu-se de cine o fi pe cand femeile din viata lui se sinucid sau innebunesc.
Perhaps it is never more ugly than when Eliade, at the end of the novel, goes off to the Himalayas to purify himself like a yogi on a mountain top, and finds cleansing in the bed of a blonde Nordic Valkyrie! The brilliance of the novel is bengla, despite the intense focus on love and pain, ebngal teaches so much about India and Britain at the time in which it set s. Dec 15, Vlad rated it it was amazing. The characters were so antipathetic.
In what concerns the ending of the book, I have quite an unpopular opinion — as far as I know, a lot of people disliked that ending, but I found it really interesting and like it should have been. Feb 01, Sara rated it really liked it Shelves: Bengal Nights never rises to anything lyrical and is often ugly. Additionally, the sexual relationship between Alain and Maitreya is quite explicitly stated, and this was Calcutta in the s, so I can only assume that it was a more conservative time than it is now.
He is returned to Calcutta and admitted into a hospital. Indeed, many married younger. Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. Am dat stelute pentru ce am citit vara trecuta. This is, of course, India, and bengal nights by mircea eliade early 20th century, and things are pretty conservative. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Think like the mountain, encompass the landscape and its culture, see beyond what we have only come to see.
Un buon Eliade ancora acerbo. Seule la fin laisse sur sa faim, en suspens sur une interrogation du narrateur: The novel involves a European, Allan, who travels to India to work as an engineer. Notify me of new comments via email. The novel has little to recommend it as a novel.
The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in This is free download Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade complete book soft copy. B I love it and I hate it at the same time, if that is at all possible. Being able to penetrate to its core this, obviously touching and disturbing at the same time, story, I find myself judging him a lot for his stupid actions and his lack of judgment, but I do not know how different would I have reacted if it all happened to me. I feel pitty for the human race, for all the stupidity that it bears with so much pride and arrogance, for the immense amount of pain and suffering we put one another through each day, for all the superstitions you — not me, not anymore — live your lives by with so much credulity and zeal, for all the little differences that keep us from seeing our much more obvious things we have in common.
It is pathetic but it also gives me this great impuls to do Sens that stand in my way and find Maitreyi, and make some good material foar a novel, but one with a very happy ending. I think I have said everything and nothing. Feb 10, Teo rated it it was ok Shelves: Dec 15, Vlad rated it it was amazing.
Yb nevoie de timp sa-mi adun gandurile. I was planning on reading this book for a very long time and now that we were midcea to read it for our Romanian class I thought that this was the perfect opportunity. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
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