Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian
police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the
Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying
languages, poetry, and history--a man who thought his life was
over--lies in a hospital bed, inexplicably alive and miraculously
healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity.
At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and
history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade's novella. Now in
its first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features
Dominic Matei, an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic
event that allows him to live a new life with startling
intellectual capacity. Sought by the Nazis for their medical
experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric
shocks, Matei is helped to flee through Romania, Switzerland, Malta
and India. Newly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and
comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and
terror of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven
fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as
the reader's imagination.
Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, "Youth Without Youth" illuminates
Eliade's longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic
imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. It will be
adapted for the screen in 2007 as Francis Ford Coppola's first
feature film in over ten years.
"A wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, [Eliade's
novellas] suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural
to finding meaning in the everyday. Highly recommended." --"Library
Journal"
"Youth Without Youth reads like asurreal collaboration by Jorge
Luis Borges, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Carl Jung. Mircea Eliade left
me with the rare sense that I had been entertained by a
genius."--William Allen, author of "Starkweather and The Fire in
the Birdbath and Other Disturbances"
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2007 |
First published: |
November 2007 |
Authors: |
Mircea Eliade
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Dimensions: |
202 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
140 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-20415-4 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Adventure / thriller >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-20415-4 |
Barcode: |
9780226204154 |
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