Gaudeamus - Mircea Eliade

In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictionalversion of his university years in late 1920's Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoningdesire to 'suck out all the marrow of life', the protagonist throws himself into hisstudies; engaging his professors and peers in philosophical discourse, becoming oneof the founding members of the Student's Union, and opening---up the attic refuge ofhis isolated teenage years as a hotspot for political debate and romantic exploration.
Readers will recognize in these pages the joy of a life about to blossom, of the searchfor knowledge and the desire for true love. Already an accomplished writer as ayoung man, this follow-up to his Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent reveals a keenobserver of human behaviour, a seeker of truth and spiritual fulfillment whose pathwould eventually lead him to become the ultimate historian of 20th-centuryreligions.