Description In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920\'s Bucharest.
He lives in the San Francisco Bay area..
Christopher Bartholomew is the translator of Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent.
His work includes studies of religion that remain influential, such as The Sacred and the Profane, and numerous works of literature, including The Forbidden Forest, Bengal Nights and Youth without Youth.
In 1957 he took up the chair of history of religion at the University of Chicago, a post that he held until his death in 1986.
About the Author Mircea Eliade was born in 1907 in Bucharest.
This follow-up to Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent reveals a keen observer of human behavior, a seeker of truth and spiritual fulfillment whose path would eventually lead him to become the ultimate historian of 20th-century religions.
Readers will recognize in these pages the joy of a life about to blossom, of the search for knowledge and the desire for true love.
Marked by a burgeoning desire to "suck out all the marrow of life," the protagonist throws himself into his studies; engaging his professors and peers in philosophical discourse, becoming one of the founding members of the Student\'s Union, and opening-up the attic refuge of his isolated teenage years as a hotspot for political debate and romantic exploration.
Description In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920\'s Bucharest
