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Original Title:	Na Hanyate
ISBN:	0226143651 (ISBN13: 9780226143651)
Edition Language:	English

It Does Not Die

Maitreyi Devi

Paperback | Pages: 264 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 1990 Users | 92 Reviews

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Title	:	It Does Not Die
Author	:	Maitreyi Devi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary 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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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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Ratings: 3.91 From 1990 Users | 92 Reviews

Judgment About Books It Does Not Die

It took me a while to read this and now I don't remember much, so I don't know what to say...The ending was weird. Really weird - in a good way. I assume it was imaginary because the lines didn't fit the characters (in my opinion).The only thing I didn't like about this book is the fact that it should be a love story, it should be about Mircea 'Euclid' (as she states a few times), yet all she talks about is herself. Actually, it's funny that right after she says that she won't say that much

This response to Eliade's "Bengal Nights" is a must read for the scholar's fans - and a very interesting read for anyone interested in autobiographical work. Who knew the lack of scandal could be even more scandalous than scandal?



One of the best love Stories I have read and liked. Irreplaceable.❤

I still have the same emotions that Mircea Eliade's book (Maitreyi) have brought up in me, but in a much smaller amount because Maitreyi's book brings a lot of understanding of her, the situation in general and a much appreciated understanding of Eliade and his actions, during and after 1930.These two books should be read one after the other. You will be given the chance to experience their encounter from both perspectives, something that is rare, even in literature. Reading this book first will

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.

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.