Sadhana the Realization of Life: 1915 - Couverture souple

Tagore, Rabindranath

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0766106594 ISBN 13 : 9780766106598

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 1998

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali polymath. As a poet, novelist, musician, and playwright, he reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", being the first non-European to win the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, Tagore was perhaps the most important literary figure of Bengali literature. He was a mesmerising representative of the Indian culture whose influence and popularity internationally perhaps could only be compared to that of Gandhi, whom Tagore named 'Mahatma' out of his deep admiration for him. A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, Tagore was already writing poems at age eight. At age sixteen, he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion") and wrote his first short stories and dramas in 1877. Tagore denounced the British Raj and supported independence. His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University. Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to political and personal topics. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore was perhaps the only litterateur who penned anthems of two countries: Bangladesh and India: Amar Shonar Bangla and Jana Gana Mana.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Rabindranath Tagore's "Sadhana: The Realization of Life" delivers the message of the human connection to universal transcendence in hauntingly beautiful English prose. Perched as he was at the cusp of the Twentieth Century, Tagore saw with penetrating insight the fallacies of the age of science. Sadhana is an excellent primer on classical Hinduism, as Tagore beautifully quotes the Vedas and Upanishads with Sanskrit transliteration to convey the loveliness of the vocal cadences of that ancient tongue. Sadhana ranks with Psalms, the Tao De Ching, the Dhammapada, Zen Mind Beginners Mind and other enduring classics of world spiritual literature for its directness, simplicity, and beauty of expression.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0766106594
• ISBN 13: 9780766106598
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible