Le Roman de l'adolescent myope

Romanul surprinde indignarea şi angoasa fără preget a adolescentului interbelic cu preocupări intelectuale. Stau şi mă întreb, ca mulţi alţii de altfel, ce anume îi face pe adolescenţi -ori pe oameni- indignaţi? Căci indignarea lui Eliade, lupta sa metafizică împotriva lăuntrului său nu are o cauza. Împotriva cui lansăm acest sentiment de revoltă? Împotriva vieţii? Dar ce dorim noi de la viaţă? Sau ce doreşte viaţa de la noi?Oricum, "confesiunea" este de interes maxim, [...]

Minunata carte a adolescentei mele. Am iubit mansarda lui Eliade ca si cum ar fi fost a mea."Nu-mi cunosc vecinii. De ce sa-i cunosc? Niciunul nu are o fiica. Nu, asta nu poate fi scris in roman. Voi marturisi, acolo, ca imi dispretuiesc vecinii." (Mansarda)"Nu mi-a placut sa am prieteni. N-am vrut sa-mi descopar sufletul adolescentilor livizi si melancolici. Mandria ca port in mine o taina pe care n-o ghiceste nimeni mi-ajungea." (Noiembrie)"Iar anul meu e sterp de inutile efervescente sentimen [...]

Copilăria şi tinereţea unui spirit pur, independent, care rămânea corigent la diverse materii pentru că, în loc să memoreze lecţii şi definiţii uscate, îl citea pe Comte sau pe Balzac. Dacă v-a plăcut "Un om sfârşit" al lui Giovanni Papini (autor despre care Eliade va vorbi şi pe care, în decursul vieţii, avea să-l citească de trei ori în seria de opere complete, şi datorită căruia a învăţat limba italiană), vă va captiva cu siguranţă şi prima carte-confesiune a [...]

"I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body" said Mircea Eliade in on of his journals. This novel prove again that he overpass this fear and put together a sum of feelings that he shape them into a diamond. The novel is gorgeous, I recommend this to every teenager that has dilemmas and problems passing trough this age. Excellent book.

It touched me to the depth of my core. His views on life are something to look up to, I admire this man with all my heart.

I tried. I really did. But I got through Catcher in the Rye, and this is worse. I cannot identify with anything except:- He makes a plan to study or do something… and gives it up to start reading more interesting books. Perfect. I do that all the time. But you can't make a book out of that, and it shows up so little that it's quite negligible. I stopped just before the halfway point, but already by that point he'd (in no particular order):- Made a girl cry by trying to kiss her and then saying [...]

This rediscovered Romanian classic is what you might get if a teenage Adrian Mole was studying for a philosophy degree. Before picking this up I knew of Mircea Eliade as a commentator on world religions. I didn’t realize he also wrote a number of novels. This is particularly special in that it’s a lost manuscript he wrote as a teenager; it was only discovered in a Bucharest attic after his death in the 1980s. The novel’s chief detriments – the repetitive nature of the sections about his [...]

This is one of the novels I should have read several years ago, in my early youth. If I would have read it when I had 17 or 18 years old I would have been better prepared for the difficult years that followed. I consider all teenagers must read it in order to learn how Eliade and his generation has passed through this difficult years. For me it was a model and I followed it even if I did not read it. I just picked several alternate routes before finally deciding to go a similar path of Eliade's [...]

Crap, crap and even more crap. What is this book supposed to teach high school freshmen? That whoring around, smoking and repeatedly failing math is supposed to make you some sort of tortured intellectual? Yeah, I don't think so. I think it's one of the worst books on my school reading list.

* As suferi mai mult daca as fi respins. Iar eu vreau sa inving intotdeauna. De aceea ma arat retras, dispretuitor. Nadajduiesc intr-un timp cand munca ma va inalta destul ca sa atrag privirile. Suferintele mele-pana atunci-nu le va cunoaste nimeni.**Aceasta e deosebirea intre mine si el: ca unul viseaza o fericire si o asteapta, iar altul se chinuie s-o ajunga fata sa se gandeasca asupra ei.***Unde imi era hotararea de a ma arata lumii asa cum sunt, constient de superioritatea mea si de nerozia [...]

Am crezut ca nu se mai termina =))) A fost ok, mai ok decat celelalte carti scrise de Eliade, dar nici asta nu m-a impresionat (desi toata lumea il lauda - si romanul, si autorul).

A very unusual book about a teenager aspiring to excel mediocrity by sacrificing his happiness. Although at first seeming weak and lacking will-power, as we watch the main character grow up he improves his self-control, finding the strength in himself to do what he was meant to do - push his limits until becoming an accomplished man. We understand that people are destined to do something really meaningful with their lives, but very few choose this way, and those who do can only achieve success b [...]

it was very inspiring and im really grateful i chose to read it a year before it was recommended to me for i had the same feelings the character did and im afraid i would have given up on it which would have been a pity

Disappointed by how misogynistic Eliade is -- I still like his works, but my taste-buds have been altered somewhat. Bitter.

A little misogynistic person, but the story is wonderful. (IS A KIND OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY)

It was an awesome book. I'm glad that I was asked to read it in the first year of highschool. One of the greatest books about childhood I've ever read

I read this back in the 1980s, when I myself was a short-sighted teenager. I liked it to some extent.

El protagonista de 'La novela del adolescente miope' (que no es otro que el propio Mircea Eliade) quiere escribir una novela titulada precisamente 'La novela del adolescente miope' que le hará famoso, le proporcionará la admiración de todos los que le rodean (especialmente sus profesores) y le ahorrará el apuro y el fastidio de tener que pasar por los exámenes del instituto. Pero antes de sentarse a escribir esta novela, decide escribir un diario que le servirá para coger apuntes en forma [...]

Istoria religiilor este un proiect pe care il aman de cativa ani buni. Il cunosc pe Eliade din liceu, cu La tiganci, dar nu m-a fascinat pe vremea aceea Nu cu mult timp in urma,sora mea mi-a recomandat Romanul adolescentului miop. Exceptional. Primii ani de scoala, primele iubiri si preocupari metafizice, primele suferinte si framantari. O lectura deosebit de placuta si tulburatoare pot spune, devii nostalgic gandindu-te la adolescenta, la visele ce le-ai avut, vorbele, gandurile, prieteniile. R [...]

The first time I read this in English and at an age where I can mock the self-centred worldview of teenagers. Previously, I was a teenager myself and thought it was something to be taken seriously (see, even the great Eliade found school life difficult!). Of course, I now think it is more fictional than autobiographical, as it's easy to see the satire in it. Particularly funny are the chapters on procrastination and pretentiousness. The chapter on 'going to the brother' is very much of its time [...]

Unlike other works of Eliade, this did not appeal to me. I found it quite boring, maybe because I am long time passed the high school period. In any case, what really impressed me is that at 19 (when he wrote it) he was imagining himself covered with glory, admired and receiving awards. Years later, it happened. This is what I call positive thinking! :)

/sigh

si eu citesc f mult dar nu am probleme cu ochiisper sa nu apara prea curand

Mai bun cu fiecare lectura repetata, mereu descopar ceva nou, cu atat mai original. Chapeau, monsieur Eliade!

Interesantă la sfârşit.

I dare say, this was the most boring book I've ever read, and it took me a month of my life to read it. I only did it because of the writer, but it was truly dissapointing.

Am început să-l citesc când ploua și eram sigură că se va termina cu asta.

,,-Depinde: ce înțelegi prin ,,eroi”? -Cel care luptă cu sine ca să concretizeze, să viețuiască și să răspândească anumite valori spirituale ce depășesc cu mult spiritualitatea comună. Cel care întrece omenescul. Cel care renunță la viața celorlalți, ca să viețuiască ascetic, ca un sfânt, numai că și-a făgăduit sieși împlinirea acele câteva hotărări.”,, Un singur gând: toate acestea vor trece; eu voi rămâne iarăși singur, și atunci mă voi stăpâni; p [...]

Voința lui Eliade e de invidiat. Sacrificiul şi hotărârea lui trebuie să fie exemplu pentru tinerii contemporani. Lăsând copilăriile şi capriciile de adolescent (pe care le-a controlat, ba chiar, le-a dominat cu voința şi spiritul său), Eliade e voință pură. E spirit abundent. E viață trăită aşa cum trebuie. E voință, voință, voință! Eliade mi-e prieten. Eliade mi-e exemplu. Eliade e inamic şi frate. Aş spune că avem nevoie de mai mulți Eliade, dar unul e suficient [...]

După terminarea acestui roman, am stat să mă gândesc de ce mi-a luat două luni+ să îl termin. Am ajuns la concluzia că iubeam cartea în timp ce o uram. O uram că mă regăseam în fiecare capitol în mod dureros, de multe ori. Fix în acel timp mă măcina întrebarea “Cine sunt eu?”. Lucru despre care Eliade a scris în acest roman, detaliat. O uram pentru că la fiecare capitol trebuia să stau mult, nu că îl citeam greu, dar simțeam că mi se furau cuvintele din gândul și s [...]