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krishna_lit
10-28-2012, 08:39 AM
GITANJALI is one of the best masterpieces ever written in the world. It was written by Rabindranath Tagore from India, the first non-Europen to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He won it for the Gitanjali itself. Anybody read it?

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YesNo
10-28-2012, 09:46 AM
I see a translation by James Talarovic called Show Yourself to My Soul is in the library. I'll check it out later today.

Is there a part you liked the best? It looks like this is a collection of poetry from the description, 157 "gitanjali".
krishna_lit
10-28-2012, 11:58 AM
I see a translation by James Talarovic called Show Yourself to My Soul is in the library. I'll check it out later today.

Is there a part you liked the best? It looks like this is a collection of poetry from the description, 157 "gitanjali".

It was firstly in Bengali (one of the Indian languages) and it contained 157 poems.. but the English version is supposed to contain some 103 i guess. And all of them are OUTSTANDING..
They're not actually like poems, they're like some paragraghs, each telling about some specific. All are very good. I felt it difficult to select favourites from it.
YesNo
10-28-2012, 05:17 PM
I started reading the Gitanjali translated by Talarovic. I see these as theistic prayers. The first one has a nice line: "Drown all my pride in tears." This is a perspective on suffering that I find attractive.

I understand that this is one of a trilogy of collections. Do you know if the original Bengali version was metrical?
Lokasenna
10-28-2012, 06:18 PM
Three of my housemates are Bengali, and they're very keen that I read some Tagore. From what little I've read, he seems like an excellent poet.
YesNo
10-28-2012, 10:16 PM
A line from the 13th one in the Talarovic translation says: "You deluded my eyes and showed Yourself to me."

This breaks apart for me the idea that truth and delusion are opposites.
krishna_lit
10-28-2012, 10:36 PM
Three of my housemates are Bengali, and they're very keen that I read some Tagore. From what little I've read, he seems like an excellent poet.

Yes he was an excellent poet, and not just that.. he is a great philisopher... he is from the Einstein's time, they both were friends, and he visited many universities around the world and orated on many occassions there..