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Bridging East and West

Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence (1919-1940)

Herausgeber: Guha, Chinmoy

Beschreibung

This work brings togther the amazing inter-cultural correspondence between two great creative geniuses of the twentieth century, two Nobel laureates from two hemispheres: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) and the French novelist, playwright, and biographer Romain Rolland (1866-1944).Translated into English for the first time, these annotated letters record the intellectual history of the time.

Autor

Chinmoy Guha is professor of English and former chair, University of Calcutta, former Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and Director of Publications, Embassy of France in India, New Delhi. He has been the literary editor of the prestigious Bengali literary magazine 'Desh' for a decade (2003--2012). The French Government conferred on him the titles of Chevalier des Palmes Académiques (2010) and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (2013). He received the Vidyasagar Puroshkar from the West Bengal Government in 2017. He was a member of the jury of the first Prix Romain Rolland, instituted by the Embassy of France in 2018. His works include 'Where the Dreams Cross: T. S. Eliot and French Poetry, The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence 1922-1938' (Sahitya Akademi), 'Tagore at Home in the World' (co-ed, Sage Publications), a biography of Victor Hugo and Bengali translations of La Rochefoucauld's 'Maxims', Flaubert's 'The Dictionary of Received Ideas', Romain Rolland's 'Danton' and André Gide's 'Strait is the Gate' (Sahitya Akademi). His best-known collections of essays in Bengali are: 'Chilekothhar Unmadini', 'Garho Shankher Khonje' and 'Ghumer Darja Thele' (Ananda Publishers and Signet Press).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199489046
• ISBN-10: 0199489041
• Artikelnr.: 54316585