Selected Short Stories

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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. Tagore's treatment of caste culture, bureaucracy and poverty paint a vivid portrait of nineteenth-century India, and all are interwoven with Tagore's perceptive eye for detail, strong sense of humanity and deep affinity for the natural world. Tagore's stories continue to rise above geographic and cultural boundaries to capture the imaginations of readers around the world.

A propos de l'auteur

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), geboren in Kalkutta, entstammte einem Brahmanengeschlecht; aber gerade diese Herkunft aus einer uns in ihrem Reichtum nachgerade abstrakt erscheinenden Welt der Paläste und Landgüter hat seinen Blick für die niederdrückende soziale Wirklichkeit seiner Heimat eher geschärft. So hielt es ihn, der schon als Achtzehnjähriger der gefeierte Dichter seiner Heimat war und dessen Werk 1913 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur gekrönt wurde, nicht in dem Elfenbeinturm des weltabgewandten Poeten. Er starb 1941.

Résumé

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Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rabindranath Tagore
• Edition: William Collins
• Contenu: Livre
• Forme du produit: Livre de poche
• Date de parution: 09.05.2013
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)
• EAN: 9780007925582
• ISBN: 978-0-00-792558-2
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Dimensions (emballage): 11,5 x 18 x 1,2 cm
• Thème: Collins Classics; Collins Classics
• Catégories: FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Biography: literary, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Comparative Literature, India, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Classic fiction: general and literary