Youth without youth and other novellas
By: Mircea Eliade ; edited and with an introduction by Matei Calinescu ; translated by Mac Linscott Ricketts.
Contributors: Călinescu, Matei.
Series: Romanian literature and thought in translation series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng; rum
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Eliade, Mircea, 1907-  -- Translations into English; Fantasy fiction, Romanian -- Translations into English
Description: Three novellas set in Romania. In "The Cape," a saboteur prints phony copies of the Romanian party organ, Scinteia, antedating them by three years. The secret police, highly agitated, deduce that a worldwide peace organization is sending coded messages through the paper, derived from the beatitudes. In "Youth Without Youth," an old man is struck by a bolt of lightning and becomes young again. Now endowed with a fantastic memory and comprehension, he receives "thought" messages from the supernatural. "Nineteen Roses" concerns the secretary of a famous writer who finds himself reliving an experience that happened to his employer 30 years ago. The writer disappears and is presumed dead, but is he?
Notes: Bibliography: p. xi-xii.
Original titles of the novellas respectively are: Pelerina, Tinerețe fără de tinerețe, and, Nouăsprezece trandafiri.
"A Sandstone book."