The Post Office
by Rabindranath Tagore
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In this volume we venture to the East. To met a writer who speaks a common language of love and mysticism which continues to convey valuable insights into universal themes in contemporary society.Tags
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La muerte es una de las constantes en la obra de Rabindranaz Tagore, pero muy alejada de la óptica occidental. Para el poeta, la muerte es una aventura iniciática a sitios desconocidos, tal como lo describe en el poemario en prosa, “La luna nueva”.
Esta misma idea está patente en la obra teatral “El cartero del rey”, en la que un niño enfermo enseña cómo sobreponerse a la adversidad a través de la imaginación y la esperanza, punto de partida del viaje espiritual hacia la felicidad.
Esta misma idea está patente en la obra teatral “El cartero del rey”, en la que un niño enfermo enseña cómo sobreponerse a la adversidad a través de la imaginación y la esperanza, punto de partida del viaje espiritual hacia la felicidad.
Dak Ghar. A simple and magical play with mystical undertones.
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Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, India. He attended University College, at London for one year before being called back to India by his father in 1880. During the first 51 years of his life, he achieved some success in the Calcutta area of India with his many stories, songs, and plays. His short stories were published show more monthly in a friend's magazine and he played the lead role in a few of the public performances of his plays. While returning to England in 1912, he began translating his latest selections of poems, Gitanjali, into English. It was published in September 1912 in a limited edition by the India Society in London. In 1913, he received the Nobel Prize for literature. He was the first non-westerner to receive the honor. In 1915, he was knighted by King George V, but Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 following the Amritsar massacre of 400 Indian demonstrators by British troops. He primarily worked in Bengali, but after his success with Gitanjali, he translated many of his other works into English. He wrote over one thousand poems; eight volumes of short stories; almost two dozen plays and play-lets; eight novels; and many books and essays on philosophy, religion, education and social topics. He also composed more than two thousand songs, both the music and lyrics. Two of them became the national anthems of India and Bangladesh. He died on August 7, 1941 at the age of 80. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Post Office
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- Dak Ghar
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- 891.4443 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Modern Indic languages Bengali Essays 1645–1845
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- PK1723 .D3 .E5 — Language and Literature Indo-Iranian languages and literatures Indo-Iranian philology and literature Indo-Aryan languages Modern Indo-Aryan languages Particular languages and dialects Bengali
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