by Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi · Editorial Delirio · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788415739432
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This volume brings together two novels by Mircea Eliade and Maitreyi Devi that explore an immortal and tragic love with India as a backdrop. In 'Maitreyi (La noche bengalí)', a French engineer in Calcutta falls in love with his host's daughter, defying social conventions. Based on Eliade's experiences, the novel narrates a forbidden and sublime romance. Forty years later, Maitreyi Devi responds with 'Mircea (El amor no muere)', seeking to rectify the story and rekindle the flame of a love that transcends death. This moving testimony offers a vision of the Indian mentality and culture from the perspective of a woman ahead of her time.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
