About this title: This is soon to be a major motion picture starring Tim Roth and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history - a man who thought his ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226204154ISBN:0226204154
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Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226204154ISBN:0226204154
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226204154ISBN:0226204154
Description: New. Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying languages, poetry, and history--a man who thought his lif... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780226204154ISBN:0226204154
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Date Published: 2007-11-30
ISBN-13:9780226204154ISBN:0226204154
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"Three novellas by Mircea Eliade in his own unique genre of literature fantastique, full of mythological themes, philosophical explorations, and camouflaged meaning. Best are Youth Without Youth and Nineteen Roses."
"As thought-piece, this is great. There's much to consider and discuss. As literature, though, it's lacking. It feels more like a treatment for the movie it became than an actual work of fiction (although I doubt Eliade was thinking 'movie' when he wrote it). It doesn't take long to read, though, so I'd recommend it for people interested in a philosophical exercise with Time."
"What a person Elade was. So much achieved in one life. His prose avoids too much character work in favour of exploring big concepts. I enjoyed the hell out of it, but in truth I am full of admiration for what Coppola did with the film. This is one of those rare situations where I think I can safely say the film, at least for me, was better."
"When I saw the Coppola adaptation of this book I somewhat understood why the movie had received so many negative reviews: it was not the action-packed, World War II movie that it's setting might have lent itself towards. Instead, and in true fashion to Eliade's work, the movie dealt primarily with the metaphysical, spiritual, and even paranormal possibilities lurking behind every age, when the aging Romanian professor Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and suddenly rejuvenated, not just physically but with an hypermnesia that allows him to know anything he desires. However, I was somewhat displeased, as much of this came off as slightly removed from the action of the story itself, as if the plot was but an ill-fitting coat hanger for the ideas presented.
As far as Eliade's novella, there is perhaps even less action and drama, and more focus on the possibility of ideas, including a random side adventure into Ireland to witness the Committee to Celebrate the Centennial of the Commemoration of the Death of Irish Poet, Magus, and Irredentist Sean Bran, a scene that seems entirely unrelated to the rest of the book, was dropped from the movie, and yet is one of the more enjoyable sections. "Youth Without Youth" reads more like a synopsis than a fleshed out work of fiction; one could easily imagine it expanded into a tome much like his masterful "Forbidden Forest." However, it also seems possible (the notorious "death of the author" aside) that as this was written at the end of Eliade's life he may have been slightly more concerned with getting the ideas down rather than developing them. If anything it could be a dying scholar and storyteller's wish to have one more chance at life to complete his work, while at the same time realizing the futility of that desire, here cast in terms of Chaungtzu's butterfly parable. Dominic Matei, perhaps Eliade himself, is an old man dreaming that he is a young man dreaming that he is every man, eventually falling into Eliade's spiritual catch-22 of the Eternal Return, bringing the still youthful Matei full circle to die where he had originally desired to commit suicide, having still not completed his life's work but learned to love life in the process."
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