Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore Volume 2: Stories Focused on Human Psychology - Softcover

Tagore, Rabindranath

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798280395022

Verlag: Independently published, 2025

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Translation of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's five short stories focused on human psychology
This book is a follow up of the previous book ‘Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore’ and contains translations of another five selected short stories of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore from his book ‘Galpaguchha’. The stories are, ‘The Postmaster’, ‘The Kabuliwala’, ‘Penance’ (Shasti), ‘Completion’ (Samapti), and ‘Broken Home’ (Nashtaneer).
Rabindranath Tagore was a man of many talents, and he introduced Bangla literature to the world. He won the first Nobel prize of the Indian Sub-continent in 1913 for his book ‘Gitanjali’, a collection of poems. He had also written short stories, novels, dramas, especially musical dramas, essays, and travelogues. Short stories are a big part of Rabindranath Tagore’s writings. He created this new genre in Bengali literature through writing around hundred short stories. A short description of his vast works is also included in this book.
The five stories of this book are some of the most popular short stories of Rabindranath Tagore, in the sense that all these five stories are transformed into plays, dramas, or movies many times both in Bangladesh and India. Moreover, three of the stories—‘The Postmaster’, ‘Completion’ (Samapti), and ‘Broken Home’ (Nashtaneer)—were transformed into movies by the legendary director Satyajit Ray himself as ‘Postmaster’, 'Samapti’ and 'Charulata' respectively.
These stories are concerned more about human psychology. The author presented actions and reactions of people in different situations and depicted beautifully how even small acts and gestures affect people, especially when it comes from persons whom they consider close to them.
Though there is a vast difference between today’s lifestyle and that of the late nineteenth century, you may find that most of the psychological issues are still relevant, because the basic nature of people and human emotions have not changed that much. People still get inspired, get hurt, feel jealous, feel angry and feel compassionate also.
Excerpts from Kabuliwala, I saw on the paper an impression of a small hand! Not a photograph, not a painting, only an impression on a paper of a small hand made by covering it with kajal (black ink made from oil lamp)! Carrying his daughter’s this token of memory every year Rahmat comes to Kolkata to sell meowa. As if that small, sweet hand gives a tender touch to his large, lonely heart.
From Penance (Shasti), Everyone was surprised to see such a stubborn lady, so inclined to get hanged. As if no one could hold her back from the verdict of ‘hanged till death’. What a deep self-respect! Chandra in her mind said to her husband, ‘I am leaving you and accepting hanging at this prime age. The hanging rope will be the last bondage of my earthly life.’
From Completion (Samapti), The arrangement was really ideal. The riverbank, shadows of trees, melodious songs of the birds, morning sunshine, a young man of twenty years; the stacked bricks may not be something worthy to mention, but the person sitting on it gave a touch of beauty to it also. Alas! In the midst of this beautiful setting, what could be a more cruel twist of fate than the end of all romanticism with the fall on the mud with the first step!
From Broken Home (Nashtaneer), The heart of that weak woman was pressured from all sides of the society. She did not have any person to whom she could express her feelings, these were not like something you could share with anyone, there was no place where she could cry her hearts out. Instead, she had to carry and shut all these unbearable, constant sorrow in her heart and behave like a normal happy person and go on with all the normal activities every day like any other normal neighbours of her.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798280395022
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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