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. They were also, as it turned out, deeply taken with each other. 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. Please have the accessibility coordinator at your school fill out this form. MA26 Dewey Decimal Classification 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. Aug 07, Anda T. It Does Not Die is a meditation on memory, and investigation of motivation, devk study of the tragedy of self-delusion, and, in the end, a profound philosophical statement on Nof and Truth.
Struggling to find a place for herself as a young Indian woman in a time dkes immense change, being more liberated than the norm, doss still being groomed to be a replacement for miatreyi father, seeking liberation from the more restrictive aspects of her religion and culture, but not by adopting a Western version of that liberation, moving freely between interpreting the world analytically, philosophically, and poetically.
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