Cerita-cerita Tagore melukiskan segala hal tentang Bengali. Setiap lembarnya menggambarkan kepekaannya terhadap kepedihan dan penderitaan. Kita dapat menemukan ketidaksetujuannya terhadap pernikahan dini dan sistem mahar, perubahan hubungan tuan tanah dengan petani penyewa, semakin dalamnya jurang pemisah antara kota dan desa, hancurnya keadilan, pendiskriminasian kemanusiaan, hingga kekejaman dan korupsi pegawai. Tagore adalah penulis Bengali yang mulai melihat cerpen sebagai sebuah bentuk seni yang serius, dan bukan sekadar hiburan untuk mengisi halaman-halaman majalah; ia adalah orang pertama yang menulis tentang kehidupan nyata dan kontemporer, dan bukan sejarah romantis ataupun mitos. Kumpulan cerita terpilih ini patut dibaca untuk mengenal lebih jauh karya-karya Tagore.
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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....
