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Maitreyi Devi
Paperback | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 3.91 | 1990 Users | 92 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Na Hanyate |
| ISBN: | 0226143651 (ISBN13: 9780226143651) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to Calcutta to study with her father. More than forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, the novel Eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases, even her given name, bringing back episodes and feelings she had spent decades trying to forget. It Does Not Die is Devi's response. In part a counter to Eliade's fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and lasting regrets.Proud of her intelligence, Maitreyi Devi's father had provided her with a fine and, for that time, remarkably liberal education — and encouraged his brilliant foreign student, Eliade, to study with her. "We were two good exhibits in his museum," Devi writes. They were also, as it turned out, deeply taken with each other. When their secret romance was discovered, Devi's father banished the young Eliade from their home.
Against a rich backdrop of life in an upper-caste Hindu household, Devi powerfully recreates the confusion of an over-educated child simultaneously confronting sex and the differences, not only between European and Indian cultures, but also between her mother's and father's view of what was right. Amid a tangle of misunderstandings, between a European man and an Indian girl, between student and teacher, husband and wife, father and daughter, she describes a romance unfolding in the face of cultural differences but finally succumbing to cultural constraints. On its own, It Does Not Die is a fascinating story of cultural conflict and thwarted love. Read together with Eliade's Bengal Nights, Devi's "romance" is a powerful study of what happens when the oppositions between innocence and experience, enchantment and disillusion, and cultural difference and colonial arrogance collide.
"In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide."—Isabel Colegate, New York Times Book Review
"Recreates, with extraordinary vividness, the 16-year-old in love that she had been. . . . Maitreyi is entirely, disarmingly open about her emotions. . . . An impassioned plea for truth."—Anita Desai, New Republic
"Something between a reunion and a duel. Together they detonate the classic bipolarities: East-West, life-art, woman-man."—Richard Eder, New York Newsday
"One good confession deserves another. . . . Both books gracefully trace the authors' doomed love affair and its emotional aftermath."—Nina Mehta, Chicago Tribune
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| Title | : | It Does Not Die |
| Author | : | Maitreyi Devi |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1995 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1974) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Cultural. India. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 1990 Users | 92 ReviewsArticle Containing Books It Does Not Die
Real love story....A great novel. Handles all the human emotions so deftly.
It does not die, by Maitreyi Devi.. Life-changing book, for sure. Anyone who's in love should read it. It changes your views on life, intimacy and.. Everything, really. It truly is a breathtaking book and it will leave you speechless.
The book was definitely not as well written as "Maitreyi" but, according to Maitreyi herself, it was much closer to the real story.Maitreyi Devi pleads that the character Maitryi in Eliade's book is not much alike her, and narrates the facts how they truly were and their meeting after 40 years.I got thoroughly into this one too, I had my favourite character [her mom:] and discussed a lot about it. One idea I liked from the book, but not very relevant for the content: Only a woman [wife:] has the
I cannot say I liked it but I didn't dislike it either, although it is a tedious, lengthy book and not very well written. However, if you have read Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights, Matreyi Devi's response four decades later is a necessary one. He was an immature dreamer who lived in fantasy world rather than reality and he used her, though I suspect, without intending to do harm. East and West, man and woman, reality and fantasy meet in the two books providing quite a good material for discussion
For me the book was an intense philosophic, emotional and self-reflection retreat.I highly appreciated all the insides of India and indian culture given by Maitreyi with widely open mind and heart. Also I admire her for the strength to carry, to understand and to process everything she has been through and the way she succeeded to express in writing. This book has opened my eyes like a personal developement book.
This is one of the most beautiful books i have ever read. Writen after 4 decades since the action originally happened, it came as a response to Mircea Eliade's book - Maitreyi, published in 1933. They should be read together.
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