Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Dutta, Krishna; Robinson, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845118049 ISBN 13: 9781845118044

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2009

Synopsis

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate--was one of his era’s cultural icons. Proclaimed as the greatest poet India has ever produced, Tagore left an astonishing legacy undimmed nearly 70 years after his death. But he was also an enigmatic, complex and contradictory figure, torn between India’s spiritual values and the spirit of the West. In this definitive biography, Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson explore the man behind the myth, presenting the power of his person, the power of his name and the power of his work. The result is an enlightening and exquisitely rendered portrayal--not of the legend but, to quote Tagore, of *the figure that once moved.*

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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: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845118049
• ISBN 13: 9781845118044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 520