Год выпуска: 2007 Автор: Mircea Eliade Издательство: University of Chicago Press Страниц: 152 ISBN: 978-0-226-20415-4 Описание At the intersection of the natural and supernatural, myth and history, dream and science, lies Mircea Eliade's novella. The psychological thriller features an elderly academic who experiences a cataclysmic transformation that endows him with prodigious powers of memory and comprehension. Sought by the Nazis for medical experiments on the potentially life-prolonging power of electric shocks, Matei flees through Romania, Switzerland, Malta, and India. In this surreal fantasy, Eliade tests the boundaries of literary genre as well as of the reader's imagination. Suspenseful, witty, and poignant, "Youth Without Youth" illuminates Eliade's longing for past loves and new texts, his erotic imagination, and his love of a thrilling mystery. |