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90 classic titles celebrating90 years of Penguin BooksRabindranath Tagore was one of the greatest authors of his generation. In these two short stories – ‘The Broken Nest’ and ‘Dead or Alive’ – he is at his devastating best, charting the slow, then fast, implosion of...
Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 3 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: 5 minutes "The Realisation of Life" by...
In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture....
My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk. He discoursed upon all subjects so confidently that...
Mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at the start of my life's journey, like the first...
Every experienced teacher must have noticed the difficulty of instructing Indian children out of books that are specially intended for use in English schools. It is not merely that the subjects are unfamiliar, but almost every phrase has English associations that are...
Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT IDEAS. ...
Poet, novelist, painter and musician, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is the grand master of Bengali culture. Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and...
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the...
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to...
[A street. A few wayfarers, and a CITY GUARD]
I MOTHER, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark [1] at the parting of your hair, the sari [2] which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at the start of my life's journey, like the...
Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view. The writer has been brought up in a family where texts of the Upanishads...
Un riche mari fort occupé par le lancement de son journal, une jeune épouse aussi intelligente que désœuvrée, et l’ami de la famille, éternel étudiant papillonnant entre sincère ambition littéraire et aveuglement irrémédiable. Voici le trio amoureux revisité, au cœur du...
"Le printemps qui un jour en folâtre compagnie vint animer ma cour de son rire cristallin, bruissant dans les rameaux fleuris du grenadier dans les palâsha en épi, les vermeils kânchana, les pârul et dans les bois aux pousses nouvelles, qui fit rougir de son...
Comme Gandhi, la pensée anti-impérialiste de Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), le prix Nobel de littérature de 1913, prône un universalisme asiatique fondé sur le principe du réveil religieux. Mais on peut également comparer « Tagore à Victor Hugo pour son génie de poète...
"Il fut un temps, m’expliqua-t-il, où je ne m’appuyai que sur la raison, pour découvrir ensuite que la raison ne pouvait supporter tout le fardeau de la vie. Il fut un autre temps où je ne m’appuyai que sur l’émotion, pour découvrir que c’était un abîme sans fond. La...
«On vole à l’enfant sa terre pour lui apprendre la géographie, sa langue pour lui apprendre la grammaire. Il a soif d’épopées, mais on lui donne des chroniques de faits et de dates.» Ainsi s’exprime Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poète, romancier, dramaturge, peintre...
Kabouliwala, la nouvelle la plus bouleversante et célèbre du maître de la littérature bengalie et prix Nobel, est pour la première fois traduite en français. Ce court récit est enrichi du texte original en bengali, et de photographies de la vie de l'auteur. Une...
Publié pour la première fois en 1915, ce beau roman de Rabindranath Tagore, prix Nobel de littérature, a pour cadre le Bengale du début du XXe siècle où sévissent de graves troubles. Récit à trois voix qui se croisent et se répondent, histoire d'amour centrée sur un...
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