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Rabindranath Tagore's Gora

 
Mohit K Ray (Editor) Rama Kundu (Editor)
Synopsis Rabindranath Tagore's long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all kinds of literary and artistic forms. He was both a man of action and a seer, a man of royal grandeur and an ascetic. In his philosophy of life the best of the east and that of the west are reconciled into a harmonious whole. His inclusive mind aspired after the universal man shining in the glory of creation and joie de vivre. With the passage of time, Tagore, our first Nobel laureate, has only grown in stature and is now reckoned as an increasingly significant and rich personality and a genius for all times. Among Rabindranath's major fictional works, Gora (1910), the sixth in the chronological order, is remarkable for its superb handling of certain topical social-religious-political controversies while reflecting at the same time some of the author's major preoccupations and convictions like the value of truth, freedom, dignity of the individual, which remained with him all long as a driving force behind his personal life as well as his great creative and critical oeuvre. The novel is set against the atmosphere of political excitement and religious debates that characterized the first decades of the last century in Bengal and India. In the words of Asit Bandyopadhyaya: "Gora is not only an epoch-making novel of modern Indian literature, it is certainly comparable with any epic novel of Europe in shape and size, in treatment and in execution." In a similar vein Niharranjan Roy, the eminent historian, eulogized Gora for its "amplitude of ancient epics." Sukumar Sen, the renowned scholar, hailed it as "a Mahabharata of modern India", while Tagore's biographer Krishna Kripalani praised the novel as "the epic of India in 'transition'", and compared it with Tolstoy's war and peace. Tagore's consistent, profound and lifelong exploration of the two issues--religion and nationalism--which necessarily got interested during those days of newly awakened cultural nationalism, found reflection in the novel. His own idealism and ideals about India, his thoughts, activities, his anguish, his dreams and disillusionment, all work together behind Gora. Significantly, in spite of all this Gora does not end up as merely a social-political treatise or discourse, and remains relevant across space and time for its message of universal humanism. The translators have attempted to strike a fine balance between fidelity and freedom by conveying the spirit of the original and yet conforming to the genius of English language. It will enable those who do not know Bengali or do not have enough proficiency in Bengali to enjoy a novel written by no less a mighty literary figure than Rabindranath Tagore.
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About the authors

Mohit K Ray

Professor Mohit K. Ray. A full Professor since 1982, is one of the seniormost Professors in the country. He has three books and a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international Conference. Seminars and Colloqula held in different parts of the globe – England, France, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German etc. He has edited several anthologies of critical studies, and edits three research journals. Professor Ray is a distinguished member of many international bodies including Association Interationale de Litterature Comparee, Paris, and Association Internationale des Critiques Litteraires, Paris.

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Rama Kundu

Rama Kundu is a full Professor of English. She has been teaching in the Postgraduate Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal since 1976. She is the author of three books: Vision and Design in Hardy’s Fiction, Westling With God: Studies in English Devotional Poetry, and a Bengali Book Anandamath O Sampradaikta on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. She has also edited an anthology of research papers on Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, and a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy, in addition to translating a Volume of poems into English – On the Revolving Stage. She has written a large number of research papers (102); these were published in scholarly journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Professor Kundu has participated and chaired sessions in a large number of National and International Seminars and Conferences including six stints in Europe.

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Title Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
Format Hardcover
Date published: 04.11.2008
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8126909490
length xxvi+478p