On Tagore
Reading the Poet Today
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Beschreibung
Infosys Prize for outstanding contribution to the Humanities in Literary Studies
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a romantic poet, speaking of beauty and truth; as a transcendentalist; a believer in the absolute; a propagandist for universal man; and as a national icon. But, as Amit Chaudhuri shows in these remarkable and widely admired essays about the poet and his milieu, his secret concern was really with life, play, and contingency, with the momentary as much as it was with the eternal. It is this strain of unacknowledged modernism, as well as a revolutionary life-affirming vision, that gives his work, Chaudhuri argues, its immense power.
Acute, challenging, and path-breaking, Amit Chaudhuri’s collection will become a classic reading of Rabindranath Tagore and the way he is perceived today.
On Tagore was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar, the West Bengal government’s highest literary honour, in 2012 in recognition of the ‘significance, in the English language, of its critical analysis of Tagore’s works’.
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Amit Chaudhuri
Themen in »On Tagore«
Chaudhuri contingency life play Poet Reading Tagore the eternal the momentary Today
Stimmen zu »On Tagore«
«Remarkably far-reaching [...] Imaginative and original.» (Amartya Sen)
«Few have written as well on Tagore’s aesthetic as Amit Chaudhuri [...] in ‘On Tagore’.» (Pankaj Mishra, in ‘From the Ruins of Empire’)
«A powerfully discerning and intelligent critic.» (Tom Paulin)
«Superbly original.» (Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books)
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