Youth Without Youth

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ISBN 10: 0226204154 / ISBN 13: 9780226204154

Published by -, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Youth Without Youth
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226204154
• ISBN 13: 9780226204154
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A fascinatingly unclassifiable novel of survival, the surreal, and the supernatural in the shadow of World War II

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. 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 was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Francis Ford Coppola

About the Author

Mircea Eliade (1907–1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor at the Divinity School and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many works of scholarship and fiction, including A History of Religious Ideas and ten novels.
Mac Linscott Ricketts is professor emeritus of philosophy and religion at Louisburg College.