Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent (Romanian: Romanul adolescentului miop) is a novel by the Romanian writer Mircea Eliade. 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.

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent
Cover of the first edition
AuthorMircea Eliade
Original titleRomanul adolescentului miop
TranslatorChristopher Moncrieff
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian
PublisherEditura Minerva
Publication date
1989
Published in English
12 April 2016
Pages476
ISBN9789732100196

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 .

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