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Chargement... Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) (édition 2005)par Rabindranath Tagore (Auteur), William Radice (Traducteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. "Small lives, humble distress, Tales of humdrum grief and pain", November 23, 2014 This review is from: Selected Short Stories (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) Containing thirty very short stories, often only about six pages long, yet for all their brevity the author completely wraps you up in the world and the events. Set in and around the River Padma (near Calcutta) in the late 19th century, Tagore writes of the ordinary people: deaths and marriages, children, poverty, the rich, the mean, the avaricious... Plus a couple with a ghostly touch. It's an era where women are definitely second-class-citizens; especially if they fall ill, when their husbands may well seek another wife; where the Hindus live alongside a Moslem population and the English governors....and where the river is a constant backdrop with its luxory houseboats and its monsoon flooding. The collection includes a poem, 'Passing Time in the Rain' (from which I have taken title of this review) and a selection of letters written by Tagore. Also a comprehensive glossary of Hindu terms encountered, a family-tree of family and map of Padma River area. Masterly storytelling, enhanced by a superb translation. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This collection of the short stories of Nobel Laureate and celebrated Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore is the first title in the series The Oxford Tagore, a major new project to publish the English translations of a wide variety of Tagore's writings including his poetry, non-fiction prose, and fiction. The translations edited by well-known scholar and translator Sukanta Chaudhuri are authoritative and readable. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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