CONTENTS
Foreword by Bryan Rennie, British historian of religions
GAUDEAMUS 1928
Part One
One: The Setting
Two: The Chairman
Three: Nonora
Four: Intermezzo
Five: The Professor
Six: Spring
Seven: Works and Days
Eight: The Trip to the Monastery
Nine: Her Name is Nişka!
Ten: L’Heure Sexuelle
Eleven: My Friend Is In Love
Twelve: Storm at the Hermitage
Thirteen: Departure
Fourteen: End of the Holidays
Fifteen: Mysteries
Sixteen: The Newspaper Office
Seventeen: My Girlfriend in Autumn
Eighteen: Jassy
Nineteen: Petre’s Nemesis
Twenty: The Characters Judge the Author
Twenty-One: Death
Twenty-Two: Light in Rome
Twenty-Three: Meditation on Two Autumns
Part Two
Letter One
Letter Two
Letter Three
Letter Four
Letter Five
Letter Six
Letter Seven
Letter Eight
Letter Nine
Letter Ten
Letter Eleven
Letter Twelve
Letter Thirteen
Part Three
Afterword by Sorin Alexandrescu, Professsor of Cultural and Visual Studies at the University of Bucharest, and Mircea Eliade’s nephew
The Author
The Translator