Rabindranath Tagore: The myriad-minded man - Hardcover

Dutta, Krishna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747520046 ISBN 13: 9780747520047

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub., 1995

Synopsis

This is a biography of Rabindraneth Tagore who won the Nobel Prize in 1913, the first of only two Asian writers to do so. Today he is highly regarded in Bengal. He perceived that the ancient polarities of East and West would be compelled to meet in the 20th century. An educational, social, political and religious reformer, he wrote poetry, short stories, novels, essays and plays, and he painted and composed songs. This book focuses on the man, not his art. It highlights those of Tagore's works that have universal appeal and that illuminate his complexity and his "myriad-mindedness".

About this title

Book Description

The acclaimed bio of the great Indian poet and first Asian Pulitzer Prize winner.

About the Author

Krishna Dutta is an author and translator specializing in the cultural history of Bengal. Her book, Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History, was published to critical acclaim and she is currently writing about the history of the first book of Indian cookery to be published in Britain. Andrew Robinson is the author of more than fifteen books, including The Art of Rabindranath Tagore and two books published by I.B.Tauris: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye and Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (with Nemai Ghosh). He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Michael Ventris and Thomas Young. He is the former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement, is now a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and a fulltime writer.

Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Book Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel, Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. She has also won the British Guardian Prize for The Villiage by the Sea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0747520046
• ISBN 13: 9780747520047
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 608