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Summary of Youth without Youth, Mircea Eliade Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian

police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the ron Guard! "eanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history#a man who thought his life was o$er#lies in a hospital bed, ine%plicably ali$e and miraculously healthy, trying to figure out how to conceal his identity! &t the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies "ircea 'liade(s no$ella! )ow in its first paperbac* edition, the psychological thriller features +ominic "atei, an elderly academic who e%periences a cataclysmic e$ent that allows him to li$e a new life with startling intellectual capacity! ,ought by the )a-is for their medical e%periments on the potentially life. prolonging power of electric shoc*s, "atei is helped to flee through Romania, ,wit-erland, "alta and ndia! )ewly endowed with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension, he finds himself face to face with the glory and terror of the supernatural! n this surreal, philosophy.dri$en fantasy, 'liade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as the reader(s imagination! ,uspenseful, witty, and poignant, /outh 0ithout /outh illuminates 'liade(s longing for past lo$es and new te%ts, his erotic imagination, and his lo$e of a thrilling mystery! t was adapted for the screen in 1223 as 4rancis 4ord 5oppola(s first feature film in o$er ten years! 6& wonderful blend of realism, surrealism, and fantasy, 7'liade(s no$ellas8 suggest the importance of the mythic and the supernatural to finding meaning in the e$eryday! Highly recommended!9 # :ibrary ;ournal 6 /outh 0ithout /outh reads li*e a surreal collaboration by ;orge :uis Borges, <urt =onnegut, ;r!, and 5arl ;ung! "ircea 'liade left me with the rare sense that had been entertained by a genius!9#0illiam &llen, author of ,tar*weather and >he 4ire in the Birdbath and ?ther +isturbances

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