Bengal Nights: A Novel (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Raisil’s request to combine 5 books, including Bengal Nights: A Novel, 5 days ago.

Raisil submitted a request to combine 5 books, including Bengal Nights: A Novel, 7 days ago.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Bengal Nights: A Novel Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• Removed a contributor: Mircea Eliade: (Primary Author)

Teodora19 edited the books like this book of Bengal Nights: A Novel Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Added Two Strange Tales
• Added It Does Not Die: A Romance
• Added Youth Without Youth
• Added A Father's Words: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
• Added Convergence (Phoenix Fiction Series)
• Added Golk (Phoenix Fiction Series)

Teodora19 edited the books influenced by this book of Bengal Nights: A Novel Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Added The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West
• Added Pelican in the Wilderness, A: Hermits,Solitaries and Recluses
• Added Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (Theorists of Myth)

Teodora19 edited the books that influenced this book of Bengal Nights: A Novel Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Added THE SLEEPING BEAUTY from The Brothers Grimm
• Added Little Red Riding Hood
• Added Lord Jim (Collected Works of Joseph Conrad)

Teodora19 edited the summary of Bengal Nights: A Novel Sunday, September 20 2009.

• Maitreyi (La Nuit Bengali, French; Bengal Nights, English) is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade.

  It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting India at the time, and the young Maitreyi Devi (protegée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who became a famous writer herself). The novel was translated into Italian in 1945, German in 1948, Spanish in 1952, Esperanto in 2007. Its most famous translation is the one in French, published as La Nuit Bengali in 1950.

  For many years, Maitreyi Devi was not aware that the story had been published. After reading it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974. Entitled Na Hanyate, it was originally published in Bengali. It was published in English as It Does Not Die.

  In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes <1> an English translation, of Mayitreyi, Bengal Nights did not appear until 1993. In 1994, the University of Chicago Press published the two works in English as companion volumes.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Bengal Nights: A Novel Wednesday, September 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mircea Eliade: (Primary Author)

Teodora19 edited the quotations of Bengal Nights: A Novel Saturday, September 12 2009.

• Added a quotation: “În dragoste nicio certitudine nu e definitivă... Lucrul acela elementar - sentimentul că eşti iubit - trebuie necontenit verificat, căci o singură îndoială, o singură greşeală surpă totul în nebunie şi extaz.”

Teodora19 edited the characters of Bengal Nights: A Novel Saturday, September 12 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Maitreyi: a beautiful young bengal
• marked the description of Maitreyi as not a spoiler
• Added the description of Alain: an european who goes to India
• marked the description of Alain as not a spoiler