Glimpses Of Bengal - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477442987 ISBN 13: 9781477442982

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Laureate, was born on 7th May 1861 and was died in 1941.He was renowned poet, playwright, and novelist of the modern India. He was a Bengali Author who reshaped Bengali Literature and Music. He Penned ‘Gitanjali’, which is deeply sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, after which he acclaimed the title ‘Nobel Laureate’. He was the first non-European to get ‘Nobel Prize’ in Literature in 1913. He started poetry writing from his early age of eight years and published his first poetry collection under the name “Sun Lion “(‘Bhanushingho). Later he wrote his first dramas and short stories in 1877. He founded the ‘Visva-Bharati University’. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works. His verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore has written two national anthems - ‘India's Jana Gana Mana’ and ‘Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla’. India's Jana Gana Mana’ was adopted as India’s national Anthem after Independence from British, and Bangladesh adopted ‘Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla’ as National Anthem in 1971.

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Review:

However hauntingly, harrowingly soulful, Anthony Minghella's screenplay could never entirely encapsulate the essence of Michael Ondaatje's novel, The English Patient. What was, without doubt, a great film (nine Academy Awards' worth) will be remembered for its visual joys--the sensational, sweeping desert scenery, the reckless passion of its difficult, eponymous hero and the sculpted beauty of his lover. What was always lost to the medium was the sheer, breathtaking beauty of the words--Ondaatje's ethereal prose, like luminous poetry, casting shadows on its pages and piercing the soul of its reader.

Never wholly comfortable in his role as novelist, Ondaatje's exploration of love, life and death, deserves to be read aloud, in honour of its masterful lyricist. And who better to breathe life to these, original, words (the Audio Book is abridged by Ondaatje himself), than Ralph Fiennes, whose film portrayal of the English patient was a masterpiece of casting. His carefully considered locution lends itself perfectly to this novel, conjuring visions of steamy Cairo, endless dry dunes and the reduced splendour of the Florentine villa, with its dusty books and damaged occupants.

It is here, amongst the swaying Cypresses, where the Canadian nurse tends her dying English patient, while her own wavering love for humanity is slowly restored. Here, where the burnt and barely alive pilot, whose identity has been lost, remembers his tragic past, helped by the morphine shots, the tortured thief, Caravaggio, and the brilliant young Sapper, Kip. If you've seen the film, but never read the book, Fiennes' reading will illuminate. If you've already read the book, hearing it read aloud, with such care and understanding, will give immense pleasure. And if you haven't done either, but you love the beauty of words, here are four hours of joy. --Carey Green

About the Author:

Rabindranath Tagore (1861 1941), is to the Indian subcontinent what Shakespeare is to the English-speaking world. A poet, playwright, painter, and educator, Tagore was also a mystic of great complexity and depth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1477442987
• ISBN 13: 9781477442982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154