Maitreyi Devi

Broschiertes Buch

It Does Not Die

A Romance

Beschreibung

An account of the experiences of Maitreyi Devi, the highly educated Indian daughter of an intellectual father who fell in love with a female student staying at her home in the 1930s. the book was written as a response to Bengal Nights, by Mircea Eliade, the young student who had stayed with the family in Calcutta.

Autor

Maitreyi Devi (1914-1990) was a poet and lecturer, founder of the Council for the Promotion of Communal Harmony in 1964 and vice-president of the All-India Women's Coordinating Council. Her first book of verse appeared when she was sixteen, with a preface by Rabindranath Tagore. Her publications include four volumes of poetry, eight works on Tagore, and numerous books on travel, philosophy, and social reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780226143651
• ISBN-10: 0226143651
• Artikelnr.: 20972697