 Acterian befriended Eliade during their school years.It was also then that he has included him as a character in Eliade's debut work, the "Novel of the Nearsighted Adolescent".After his stay in British India, Eliade dedicated his novella, "Isabel and the Devil's Waters", "To my friend Mihail and the blind woman Lalu" — Lalu being one of Eliade's acquaintances from Calcutta.