Sukanta Chaudhuri
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Selected Short Stories reflects the full range of Tagore's work in the genre, making us revise the conventional view of Tagore as a short story writer. Writing at a time when the form was not yet popular, Tagore eschewed the romantic strain of narrative prevalent in his day. His stories are fables of modern man, where fairy-tale meets hard reality and myths are reworked, where the religion of humanity triumphs over the religion of ritual and convention, and ...
Sesh Prashna ('The Final Question') is one of Sharatchandra Chatterjee’s last major novels, and perhaps his most radically innovative. Breaking the bounds of Bengali romantic fiction, Sharatchandra challenges the norms of nationhood, society, and womanhood. The novel caused a sensation when it was first published in 1931, drawing censure from conservative critics but enthusiastic support from general readers, especially women. The heroine, Kamal, is exceptional ...
Selected Short Stories reflects the full range of Tagore’s work in the genre, making us revise the conventional view of Tagore as a short story writer. Writing at a time when the form was not yet popular, Tagore eschewed the romantic strain of narrative prevalent in his day. His stories are fables of modern man, where fairy-tale meets hard reality and myths are reworked, where the religion of humanity triumphs over the religion of ritual and ...
This book extends the image of Rabindranath Tagore in the world’s eyes, and offers readers a rich insight into one of the most attractive yet least explored aspects of Rabindranath’s life and imagination. Rabindranath, the poet and sage, appears here as a writer for children in a number of veins—comic, whimsical, tender, serious. Among the variety of verses to be found here are delicate pieces originally written for an innovative Bengali textbook; ...
Tagore place as a critic has been partly eclipsed by his fame as a creative writer. He is one of the founders of modern Bengali critical thought, and among the most perceptive literary analysts in the language. His corpus of critical writings is considerable, comprising more than one hundred pieces of varying length. The essays featured in this selection reveal his engagement with the central issues of criticism, as well as with literary theory and aesthetics. ...
The fourth volume in the Oxford Tagore Translations series, this collection brings together new translations of nearly 150 poems by Rabindranath Tagore, many of which have been translated into English for the first time. Covering the entire span of Tagore's life, these poems illustrate his work in many significant genres and forms. Within the covers of a single volume, they offer a more representative range than ever before in English of Tagore's output in the ...
Munshi Premchand needs no introduction. In this collection, twelve stories from his oeuvre, carefully adapted and specially illustrated keeping young readers in mind, offer a vivid glimpse of life in the villages and small towns of north India. Each story is unique in its own way. ‘The Road to Salvation’ traces the theme of revenge and human folly, while ‘January Night’ is as much about the plight of Halku, a poor farmer at the mercy of the local ...
Relationships (Jogajog) was serialized nearly eighty years ago, and is set in the nineteenth century; but its analysis of human relations and personalities is still relevant. The novel presents a critical evaluation of the Bengali bourgeoisie, an undertaking in which Tagore's own emotional and ideological investments are critically involved. Tagore intended Relationships to be a family history of two families over three generations, though the design was never ...
Infirm Glory places Shakespeare in the context of Renaissance thought and literature, especially with respect to man’s faculties and his place in the universe. The author starts with an account of Renaissance skepticism, the line of thought that questions man’s ability to attain to certain knowledge. This intellectual doubt soon extends to moral questioning, and passes beyond formal philosophy to broader literary and speculative treatments.Infirm ...
Parashuram, or Rajshekhar Bose(1880–1960), was one of the most eminent and versatile figures of twentieth-century Bengal. Best known for his comic and satirical writing, he was the author of the popular Bengali dictionary Chalantika, played an innovative role in Bengali printing technology, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956. This book is a selection of Parashuram's best comic tales: most of the classic pieces from his earlier volumes, as well as his ...
This volume contains all the recoverable English writings of the Bengali poet and critic Sudhindranath Datta, outside those already gathered in an earlier collection, The World of Twilight. They include a hitherto unknown introduction for a projected Oxford Book of Bengali Verse, drafted by Sudhindranath for the proposed editor, Rabindranath Tagore. Other pieces testify to his informed interest and original thought about Indian and European literature, ancient ...