Gitanjali - format ePub

"Il fut un temps, m’expliqua-t-il, où je ne m’appuyai que sur la raison, pour découvrir ensuite que la raison ne pouvait supporter tout le fardeau de la vie. Il fut un autre temps où je ne m’appuyai que...

Rabindranath Tagore écrit sa langue natale, le bengali, mais traduit aussi lui-même son oeuvre en anglais, langue qu'il possède parfaitement et dont il se sert avec une âme de poète et une perfection...

Considéré de son vivant comme le plus mystique des poètes et le plus poète des mystiques, Rabindranath Tagore est persuadé qu’une convivialité planétaire des civilisations, des cultures et des religions...

"Nationalismus" von Rabindranath Tagore ist eine Sammlung von Essays, in denen der Autor seine kritischen Ansichten über den Nationalismus und seine Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft darlegt. Tagore argumentiert,...

Every experienced teacher must have noticed the difficulty of instructing Indian children out of books that are specially intended for use in English schools. It is not merely that the subjects are unfamiliar,...

Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject-matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view. The...

Mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace....

1913 erschien Rabindranath Tagores "Sadhana" erstmalig auf Bengali. Es sieht die Aufgabe des Menschen darin, sein wahres Ich zu erkennen, um seine Bestimmung zu erfüllen und reiht sich damit in die Erkenntnisse...

My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as...

In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. These short stories, written...

Written by the 1913 winner of the Nobel Price in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore, 'The Home and the World' follows the characters of Nikhil and Sandip, who have very different ideals around using violence...

I have carried the manuscript of these translations with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would...

A dry-fruit seller from Kabul with a heart of molten gold and a fist of iron. Escapades of naughty schoolboys travelling on a train with an unusual teacher. The decisive battle of skill and oratory between...

This is the English translation of Tagore's "Mukut" meaning crown, set in 16th century royal Tripura. The play is all ready for production. The Emperor's sons compete with each other in a contest of archery...

A pack of jackals howled out very loudly from a bush causing a minute-long hiatus in the schoolmaster's flow of words. It seemed as if the comically-inclined vulpines in that pitch-dark aggregation reeled...

Gitanjali, Song Offerings, publié sous le titre "L’Offrande Lyrique", ici dans la traduction française d’André Gide, est sans doute l’oeuvre la plus connue de Rabindranath Tagore, Prix Nobel de littérature...

Rabindranâth Tagore (1861-1941) fut marqué dans son enfance par le climat panthéiste du mouvement religieux dont son père était le maître spirituel. Après des études en Angleterre, il revient en Inde,...

«On vole à l’enfant sa terre pour lui apprendre la géographie, sa langue pour lui apprendre la grammaire. Il a soif d’épopées, mais on lui donne des chroniques de faits et de dates.» Ainsi s’exprime Rabindranath...

« L’Offrande lyrique » est l'œuvre majeure de Tagore, qui lui vaudra le prix Nobel de littérature en 1913, et une place dans la « collection Unesco d'œuvres représentatives ». À l'aube de la Première...

Ecrit par le Prix Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Sadhana constitue une introduction profonde et accessible à l'héritage spirituel de l'Inde. Tagore, passeur par excellence de la philosophie et de...

Révoltée depuis l’enfance, Ela étouffe dans les conventions d’une société indienne figée. Elle se passionne pour ses études et s’engage à corps perdu dans la lutte pour l’indépendance de l’Inde. Mais...

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Kumudini a dix-neuf ans, la grâce d’être bien née, de goûter les arts et de prier les dieux. Elle vit dans la compagnie tendre de son frère aîné, Vipradas, humaniste fort accablé par le souci des dettes...

Publié pour la première fois en 1915, ce beau roman de Rabindranath Tagore, prix Nobel de littérature, a pour cadre le Bengale du début du XXe siècle où sévissent de graves troubles. Récit à trois voix...

Kabouliwala, la nouvelle la plus bouleversante et célèbre du maître de la littérature bengalie et prix Nobel, est pour la première fois traduite en français. Ce court récit est enrichi du texte original...

Comme Gandhi, la pensée anti-impérialiste de Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), le prix Nobel de littérature de 1913, prône un universalisme asiatique fondé sur le principe du réveil religieux. Mais on...

Le "Cycle du printemps" de Rabindranath Tagore est une œuvre poétique qui célèbre la beauté éphémère de la nature et évoque les thèmes de l'amour, de l'innocence et de la renaissance. Écrit dans un style...

Kabouliwala, la nouvelle la plus bouleversante et célèbre du maître de la littérature bengalie et prix Nobel, est pour la première fois traduite en français. Ce court récit est enrichi du texte original...

Inde, été 1940. Rabindranath Tagore passe ses dernières vacances dans la petite bourgade montagnarde de Kalimpong, près de Darjeeling. Entouré de sa famille et d'un groupe d'amis, l'auteur de "L'Offrande...

"Le printemps qui un jour en folâtre compagnie vint animer ma cour de son rire cristallin, bruissant dans les rameaux fleuris du grenadier dans les palâsha en épi, les vermeils kânchana, les pârul...

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