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''Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent'' () is a novel by the Romanian writer
Mircea Eliade Mircea Eliade (; – April 22, 1986) was a Romanians, Romanian History of religion, historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who establ ...
. It is based on Eliade's time in high-school and tells the story of a precocious teenager with literary ambitions. The book was written in the 1920s when Eliade was still a teenager. It was discovered after the author's death and published in 1989 in Romania. An English translation was published in 2016 in the UK. It was followed by '' Gaudeamus'', written in 1928, which is based on Eliade's university time. ''Gaudeamus'' was published in English for the first time in April 2018 by Istros Books, translated by Christopher Bartholomew .


Composition

Eliade began to write the novel in 1921 under the title ''Jurnalul unui om sucit''. In 1923 it had taken the name ''Romanul unui om sucit'', until the final version was written in 1925 as ''Romanul adolescentului miop''. While he wrote the book, Eliade thought it was the first time a novel about adolescence was written by an actual adolescent.


Publication

The book was discovered after Eliade's death and was published in 1989 in Romanian. An English translation by Christopher Moncrieff was published in 2016 by
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, a publisher in the UK.


Reception

Nicholas Lezard Nicholas Andrew Selwyn LezardThe Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, p. 814 is an English journalist, author and literary critic. Background and education The Lezard family went from London to ...
of ''
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'' wrote in 2016: "Eliade may be describing the life of a student in a Romanian lycée 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."
Sorin Alexandrescu Sorin Alexandrescu (born 18 August 1937) is a Romanian-born academic, literary critic, semiotician, linguist, essayist, and translator. Born in Bucharest as the son of Constantin, a magistrate, and Ileana, Mircea Eliade's sister, he graduated from ...
wrote in ''Guernica'' (2016): "This ambition towards self-knowledge is what distinguishes Mircea Eliade’s novel from many others about adolescents. While the authors of such novels usually narrate events that reveal the hero’s uncertainty with respect to himself, they do not depict the permanent self-questioning and the analysis of the mystery of identity as Mircea Eliade does." Bryan Rennie wrote in the ''
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'' (2016): "The novel has much to say about the development of Eliade’s views — on writing, on politics, and on religion. Just as literary and artistic representation can help us better understand the experience of the doctor and the patient, so too Eliade’s creative writing helps us better understand the experience of a religious seeker and scholar. ..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."


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