Selections from Galpaguchchha Vol 2: Manihara and Other Stories - Softcover

Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay (Translator)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8125040978 ISBN 13: 9788125040972

Publisher: Orient Blackswan, 2010

Synopsis

This three-volume English translation by Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay called Selections from Galpaguchchha is a collection of sixty-one of Tagore s short stories broadly grouped under the themes of parting of ways, the relationship between men and women, and the power within the woman, respectively. In Volume 2, we find the ever- popular Ramkanai s Folly , The Ghat s Story , Woman Bereft of Jewels , Grandfather , and The Matronly Boy , among other stories. The travails of a timid man of indomitable honesty who attains a tragic heroism are narrated in Ramkanai s Folly , while the theme of The Ghat s Story is the unstated, forbidden love of a young woman for a hermit who may or may not be her long-lost husband. The frisson in the haunting climax of the Woman Bereft of Jewels , a horrifying morality tale of egotism and greed, is justly famous.

About this title

About the Author:

Ratan Kumar Chattopadhyay, the translator of Tagore s short stories in Bengali, is a graduate from the University of Calcutta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orient Blackswan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 8125040978
• ISBN 13: 9788125040972
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320