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Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

By Mircea Eliade

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About the book

The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, and stays up all night reading. At the age of 17 he decides to write a novel to prove to his teachers that he is not as mediocre as his fellow pupils, and is prepared to give up everything in order to do so. The novel is written in a series of notebooks - the 'diary' of the title - but instead of ac...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9781908236210

Publisher

Istros Books

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Format

Paperback

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