Bridging East and West
Rabindranath Tagore and Romain Rolland Correspondence (1919–1940)
Price: 1195.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199489046
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Hardback
236 pages
Price: 1195.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199489046
Publication date:
01/10/2018
Hardback
236 pages
Edited and French letters translated by Chinmoy Guha
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and Romain Rolland (1866–1944) were two of the principal humanists of the twentieth century, who questioned the ideas of frontier and nationalism from their respective socio-political contexts. This volume, a record of the dialogue between Tagore and Rolland, is an attempt to see how they tried to bridge their milieus between the two World Wars.
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Edited and French letters translated by Chinmoy Guha
Description
Dating from 1919 to 1940, these letters and telegrams are being published for the first time in English in their entirety. They manage to capture the essence of Tagore and Rolland’s friendship in their struggle with the conflict between nationalism and human conscience. This volume also presents three important conversations the two engaged in at various points in time, as well as letters by Rathindranath Tagore and others, and lays out the journey of these two writers towards the imaging of a different world outside jingoistic politics. This correspondence presents the fi nest exchange of thought between the East and the West, and scripts the intellectual history of early twentieth century.
About The Editor
Chinmoy Guha is professor of English at University of Calcutta. A well-known French scholar and the recipient of the titles Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Guha has also been the literary editor of the prestigious Bengali periodical, Desh.
Edited and French letters translated by Chinmoy Guha
Table of contents
Table of Contents
List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Correspondence of Tagore and Rolland
2. Conversations between Rolland and Tagore
Appendix A: Rolland on Tagore and Tagore on Rolland
Appendix B: Tagore on Fascism
Appendix C: Correspondence between Romain Rolland and Saumyendranath Tagore
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Translator
Edited and French letters translated by Chinmoy Guha
Features
- Correspondence between Nobel laureates from two parts of the world
- Translated into English for the first time
- Discussion on issues such as Fascism, Nationalism, and Mussolini
Edited and French letters translated by Chinmoy Guha
Review
Reviews
‘[We] see the scorching truths of their humanity in [these] letters, so delicately strung together.’
—Gopalkrishna Gandhi,Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University, India
‘A dialogue between two continents and two histories, between two men who were themselves a continent and a history.’
—Marc Lambron, member of Académie française, France
Description
Dating from 1919 to 1940, these letters and telegrams are being published for the first time in English in their entirety. They manage to capture the essence of Tagore and Rolland’s friendship in their struggle with the conflict between nationalism and human conscience. This volume also presents three important conversations the two engaged in at various points in time, as well as letters by Rathindranath Tagore and others, and lays out the journey of these two writers towards the imaging of a different world outside jingoistic politics. This correspondence presents the fi nest exchange of thought between the East and the West, and scripts the intellectual history of early twentieth century.
About The Editor
Chinmoy Guha is professor of English at University of Calcutta. A well-known French scholar and the recipient of the titles Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Chevalier des Palmes académiques, Guha has also been the literary editor of the prestigious Bengali periodical, Desh.
Reviews
Reviews
‘[We] see the scorching truths of their humanity in [these] letters, so delicately strung together.’
—Gopalkrishna Gandhi,Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University, India
‘A dialogue between two continents and two histories, between two men who were themselves a continent and a history.’
—Marc Lambron, member of Académie française, France
Table of contents
Table of Contents
List of Photographs
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Correspondence of Tagore and Rolland
2. Conversations between Rolland and Tagore
Appendix A: Rolland on Tagore and Tagore on Rolland
Appendix B: Tagore on Fascism
Appendix C: Correspondence between Romain Rolland and Saumyendranath Tagore
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Translator