Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Eliade, Mircea
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Eliade, Mircea

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate...
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Author: Mircea Eliade
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Eliade, Mircea

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

$270.34
Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent by Eliade, Mircea

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

$270.34
Author: Mircea Eliade
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, and stays up all night reading. At the age of 17 he decides to write a novel to prove to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his fellow pupils, and is prepared to give up everything in order to do so. The novel is written in a series of notebooks - the 'diary' of the title - but instead of achieving fame as an author, the myopic protagonist fails his exams and has to repeat the school year. From the perspective of a schoolboy's diary of everyday life in Bucharest in the early 20th century, - 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, subjects that would preoccupy Mircea Eliade, one of Romania's most prominent intellectuals, until the end of his life. Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent was written when he was the same age as the book's adolescent hero, and remained unpublished until it was found in an attic in Bucharest after the author's death in 1986. As such it provides a unique insight into the early career of a great novelist and religious philosopher whose work has been neglected in the English language for too long.

Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Istros Books
Published: 04/12/2016
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781908236210

About the Author
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.


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