Youth Without Youth (Romanian: Tinereţe fără tinereţe) is a 1976novella by Romanian author Mircea Eliade. It follows the life of Dominic Matei, an elderly Romanian intellectual who experiences a cataclysmic event that allows him to live a new life with startling intellectual capacity.[2] In 2007, it was adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola, also titled Youth Without Youth.[3]