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It's hard to believe the Romanian academic was a teen when he wrote this clever novel. --Guradian

Nick Lezard's choice, The Guardian '. . .playful, ludicrous and very good teen journal, in English for the first time' 'Eliade may be describing the life of a student in a Romanian lyc e of almost a century ago, but anyone who has ever been at school, full of ideals but also too shy to speak to the opposite sex, or incapable of revising for an exam until the very last minute, will relate to this. As will anyone who has ever committed their private thoughts to paper, as the true record of their soul and a rebuke to posterity.' The power of Diary is that, while not being a novel unique to Romania, it can be read as metonymous of it. . . For all its boyish, slapdash sentiments, this is a refined piece of work. Alexander Clapp, TLS . . . Istros Books publication of Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent, now the eighth of Eliade's novels in English, marks a turn of the tide.. . Moncrieff's translation, which adopts the idiom of the old English grammar school system, lends a vaguely unreal, Harry Potter-like air to the novel, enlivening the intellectual content. Bryan Rennie, LA Review of Books

It's hard to believe the Romanian academic was a teen when he wrote this clever novel. Guradian

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"Mircea Eliade (1907 -1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His literary works belong to the fantastic and autobiographical genres. The best known are the novels Maitreyi (""La Nuit Bengali"" or ""Bengal Nights""), Noaptea de Sanziene (""The Forbidden Forest""), Isabel si apele diavolului (""Isabel and the Devil's Waters"") and Romanul Adolescentului Miop (""Diary of the Short-Sighted Adolescent""), the novellas Domnisoara Christina (""Miss Christina"") and Tinerete fara tinerete (""Youth Without Youth""), and the short stories Secretul doctorului Honigberger (""The Secret of Dr. Honigberger"") and La Tiganci (""With the Gypsy Girls"")."

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