BENGAL NIGHTS (NOVEL)

'''Maitreyi''' (''La Nuit Bengali'', French; ''Bengal Nights'', English) is a 1933 Romanian novel written by the author and philosopher Mircea Eliade.
It is a fictionalized account of the love story between Eliade, who was visiting British India at the time, and the young Maitreyi Devi (protegée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who became a famous writer herself). The novel was translated into Italian in 1945, German in 1948, and Spanish in 1952. Its most famous translation is the one in French, published as ''La Nuit Bengali'' in 1950.
For many years, Maitreyi Devi was not aware that the story had been published. After reading it, she wrote her own version of the relationship in 1974. Entitled ''Na Hanyate'', it was originally published in Bengali. It was published in English as ''It Does Not Die''.
In fulfillment of a promise Eliade made to Maitreyi that his novel would not be published in English during their lifetimes [1] an English translation, of ''Mayitreyi'', ''Bengal Nights'' did not appear until 1993. In 1994, the University of Chicago Press published the two works in English as companion volumes.

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''The Bengali Night'' is a 1988 film based upon the French translation of the same name. It stars Hugh Grant, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shabana Azmi and Supriya Pathak.

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★ The Untold Story behind the Publishing of Maitreyi Devi

★ Passionate Fictions: Horizons of the Exotic and Colonial Self-Fashioning in Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's Na Hanyate

★ Book reviews - JSTOR

★ Lecture on the novel

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★ Devi, Maitreyi It Does Not Die: A Romance

★ Eliade, Mircea Bengal Nights: A Novel