Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 81-7167-972-2 |
ISBN-13 | 9788171679720 |
No of pages | 358 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Rupa Publications India |
Published Date | 01 Jan 2003 |
Rabindranath Tagore is considered to be one of the greatest poets and authors that India has produced. His most famous work is perhaps the Gitanjali, a book of lyrical prose that even today people sing from. This poet’s work was highly regarded by other great poets like W B Yeats, who in fact, wrote the introduction to the translated version of Gitanjali. The Gardener is considered to be one of Tagore’s finest work.
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The English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's novel, Nakatani (1906), The Wreck (1921) is the story of the conflict caused by mistaken identity, resulting in an exchange of wives.
Delightfully told and interspersed with extraordinarily lovely descriptions of nature, this novel probes the rift between the reformist, progressive Brahmo Semaj and the traditional conservatism of Hinduism. It is one of Tagore's most widely translated novels and was praised by the noted critic, Krishna Kripalu as having an 'ingeniously constructed story, unburdened with philosophy…'