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in love with the host's daughter (Maitreyi), their forbidden love gradually grows, resulting in Maitreyi and Allan ending up together. Chabu, Maitreyi's sister, unwillingly witnesses the lovers hugging thus banishing Allan and isolating Maitreyi. Both suffer immensely. To rid himself of the suffering, Allan retreats into a bungalow in the Himalaya mountains where he meets Jenia Issac.
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Allan is an employee of the company run by engineer Narendra Sen. When sent to work in a rain-abundant region of India, Allan becomes ill with malaria. He is returned to Calcutta and admitted into a hospital. After treatment, Sen invites Allan into his own house. Shortly after the young guest falls
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In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes, an English translation, of
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Passionate Fictions: Horizons of the Exotic and Colonial Self-Fashioning in Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's Na Hanyate
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was not aware that the story had been published. After reading it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974. Entitled
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It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting
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is a 1988 film based upon the French translation of the same name. It stars
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A Terrible Hurt: The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi
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Press published the two works in English as companion volumes.
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The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi
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Bengal Nights (novel)
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Mircea Eliade
Autobiographical
Romance novel
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paperback
ISBN
9789735004101
novel
Mircea Eliade
India
Maitreyi Devi
Bengali
Rabindranath Tagore
Italian
German
Spanish
Bengali
Esperanto
Serio Oriento-Okcidento
Albanian
French
Maitreyi Devi
Na Hanyate

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