Tehran – The Persian translation of the 1976 novel “Youth Without Youth,” written by Romanian author Mircea Eliade, was released in Iranian bookstores.
Reza Dehghan translated the book, and Mahi’s publication published it on 157 pages, Isna reported.
The story follows the life of Dominique Matey, an older Romanian intellectual who experiences intense events where he can lead a new life with incredible intellectual capabilities.
Bucharest, 1938: While Hitler gains power in Germany, Romanian police begin arresting students who suspect they belong to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who studied language, poetry and history, whom he thought his life was over, lives inexplicably and miraculously healthy hospital beds, trying to find a way to hide his identity.
At the intersection of nature and supernatural, myth and history, dreams and science, there is Mircia Eliard’s novel. Currently, in the first paperback edition, the psychological thriller features Dominic Matey, an academic of seniors who experience cataclysmic events where they can lead new lives with amazing intellectual capabilities. The Nazis are sought for medical experiments on the potentially life-sustaining power of electricity, and Matey will help escape Romania, Switzerland, Malta and India. Blessed with the incredible power of memory and understanding, he finds himself in face with the glory and fear of the supernatural. In this surreal, philosophy-driven fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of the reader’s imagination as well as the literary genre.
Suspense, witty and heart-pounding, “Youth Without You” illuminates Eliade’s longing for past love and new texts, his imagination, and love for thrilling mysteries. In 2007 it fitted on the screen as the first feature film of Francis Ford Coppola, starring Tim Ross, Bruno Gantz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Andre Henikke, Marcel Ire and Adrian Pintea.
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was a Romanian-born historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, professor at the University of Chicago, and was one of the outstanding interpreters of world religions of the last century.
He is a similarly enthusiastic author of fiction and non-fiction, and has published over 1,300 works over 60 years. He achieved international fame with “The Myth of Eternal Return” (1949). This is a religious interpretation of symbols and images. Eliard was very interested in the unconscious world.
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