"También ahora la noche es oscura, y la llamo: vuelve, tesoro mío, el mundo está dormido. Si vienes un momento, mientras las estrellas se miran largamente, nadie se dará cuenta.” La muerte es una de las constantes en la obra de Rabindranath 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 -y canto elegíaco- La luna nueva.
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's Jana Gana Mana and Bangladesh's Amar Shonar Bangla. The complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites: http://www.tagoreweb.in/ http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....
