Set in 1930s Calcutta, this intimate, semiautobiographical novel of a young French engineer's fascination with India, his colonial pride, and his tragic love affair with a beautiful Indian poet is an erotic, passionate story told in hindsight, quoting from his disordered diaries
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Set in 1930s Calcutta, this semiautobiographical novel by the world-renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate love affair of Alain, a young French engineer, and Maitreyi, the daughter of his Indian employer. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self-discovery. Over forty years passed before the real Maitreyi Devi read Eliade's erotically charged novel and wrote her response, It Does Not Die.
