Rabindranath Tagore Bücher

Rabindranath Tagore gilt als der bedeutendste indische Dichter der Moderne. 1913 erhielt er als erster Schriftsteller außerhalb des westlichen Kulturkreises den Nobelpreis für Literatur... Tagores universales Genie ist oft mit dem Goethes verglichen worden. Er war nicht nur Lyriker, Erzähler und Dramatiker, er komponierte auch, malte, war Schauspieler und Regisseur, wirkte als Pädagoge, Sozialreformer und politischer Aktivist. In den zwanziger Jahren war Tagore in Europa eine Kultfigur; heute wird er wiederentdeckt. Martin Kämpchen

Excerpt from Glimpses of Bengal: Selected From the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore, 1885 to 1895:It so happened that selected extracts from a large number of such letters found their way back to me years after they had been written. It had been rightly conjectured that they would delight me by bringing to mind the memory of days when, under the shelter of obscurity, I enjoyed the greatest freedom my life has ever known.

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 gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.