Maitreyi is interested in learning French, and soon, he begins to give her French lessons, while she teaches him Bengali. However, he accepts Narendra Sen’s offer and moves to his house. Alain does not believe it also, he dislikes Maitreyi’s appearance. Alain’s friends are convinced that it is a ploy to make him fall in love with Maitreyi and get him married. Just then, his employer, Narendra Sen, visits him with his sixteen year old daughter Maitreyi, and invites him to stay at his residence as he recovers. When he regains conciousness, he is surrounded by his friends, all of whom have a prejudice against India and its people. His life is filled with frivolous parties with his friend Harold and “the girls.” While working on a project in Assam, he contracts malaria and is hospitalized. Summary : Alain (Eliade’s alter ego) is a European engineer working in Calcutta.
Looks like this is the year of romance for me. I had given up on ever getting a copy of this book, after searching for it for about a year, when just as unexpectedly, I found it! Otherwise, there is no chance on earth that I would hunt far and wide for a romance. This gave Bengal Nights the halo of “the book that I couldn’t have” and like all things we cannot have, it only made me want it more.
After reading the summary on goodreads, I was quite intrigued, but what drove me nuts was the fact that this book was not available anywhere. Her body and her mind are overwhelming.”īengal Nights, or Maitreyi, or La Nuit Bengali by Romanian historian Mircea Eliade is a title I came across by accident.
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