![]() But he turned what evidently were fervent but limited caresses into a lavishly sexual affair, with Maitreyi paying nightly bedroom visits as a kind of mystically inflamed Hindu goddess of love.įorty years after that, Maitreyi Devi, now a grandmother and known at home and abroad as a social reformer and Tagore scholar, was told the details of the book whose contents she had only been vaguely aware of. ![]() He barely altered the external facts: The narrator, also named Mircea, is a young draftsman his host and mentor is a senior engineer and the daughter retains her first name and her poetry. Three years later Mircea Eliade-who was to become widely known as a writer, philosopher and historian of religions-published a highly charged novel about his experience. Eventually their love was discovered and the young man was thrown out of the house. He fell passionately in love with the philosopher’s 16-year-old daughter, Maitreyi, herself a poet and disciple of Rabindranath Tagore. In 1930 a young Romanian came to Calcutta to live and study with a renowned Indian philosopher. ![]()
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