false 314972 1 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 a surreal 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 305808 30 11 2007 Youth Without Youth total:67|5:11|4:25|3:19|2:10|1:2| 67 234 120 14 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 14:36:10 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 14:41:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 17 14:13:42 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 11:40:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 14:13:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 11 23:25:59 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 00:59:39 -0800 2007 FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON, and what ho! the ending bore that feeling out. Th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 13:14:35 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 16:50:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 05:55:03 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 04:57:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Oct 16 21:50:37 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 21:56:34 -0700 2009 0 1 false false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 16:16:46 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 15:49:23 -0700 2008 An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 12 01:37:12 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 03:46:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 05:00:22 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 03:08:17 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 15 00:34:48 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 00:34:59 -0800 2007 Three Strange Tales with pleasure, but this novella is confused & lacking in cohesion. ]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 21 13:02:32 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 13:03:35 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 13:50:53 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 11:12:18 -0800 2009 1 0 0 false false Tue Apr 01 23:59:30 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 00:00:05 -0700 2008
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