MAITREYI

«Maitreyi» (1933) by Mircea Eliade is a love novel, inspired by a real story lived by the author in India, between 1929-1931.
The book has as its main character Allan, an English engineer (but in fact the alter ego of Eliade), who arrives in Kolkata (Calcutta) to work. Here he meets Maitreyi Devi, the daughter of the Indian engineer Narendra Sen — a 16-year-old girl, of a special beauty, with a melancholic look, a lot of sensitivity, intelligence and a poetic nature. 
A show with established and well-known actors to the general public, now comes with authentic feelings and pure emotions, to stage the conflict between reason and feeling. The impossible love story between Maitreiy and Allan, is about the West and the East, about defying social conventions through total love. A love that appears from nowhere, is composed and then suddenly and abusively decomposes due to society, family and cultural differences, leaving behind years of unspoken and unfulfilled words and feelings. Is it good? Is it bad? We don't know! But it certainly remains incomprehensible for our days. 
                                                 DANI POPESCU