Devi’s Na Hanyate and Eliade’s La Nuit Bengali: Contribution of Ego to Plurality of Truth

Abstract

Maitreyi Devi’s Na Hanyate and Mircea Eliade’s La Nuit Bengali are two  opposite representations of the same story. Due to alleged distortions of truth, available in their narratives, it becomes indispensable to investigate what triggers their truths to be different. This paper argues that a sort of geographical (East and West) and gender (masculine and feminine) ego make the representation different in the two narratives. The study here has resorted to the theoretical perceptions of East and West and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis of human ego to analyze the difference in the representation of the reality.