Le Vagabond et Autres Histoires

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L'Esquif D'Or: Anthologie de L'Uvre Poetique

D'abord publié en anglais en 1917, Nationalisme est traduit en français en 1924. Cet essai de Rabindranath Tagore reparaît intégralement pour la première fois dans une traduction corrigée et accompagnée d'une introduction et d'annexes éclairant son contexte et son intérêt pour notre temps.

Nationalisme

Révoltée depuis l'enfance, Ela étouffe dans les conventions d'une société indienne figée. Elle se passionne pour ses études et s'engage à corps perdu dans la lutte pour l'indépendance de l'Inde. Mais son amour pour le poète Atindra va bousculer sa vie. Cette fière héroïne, déchirée entre l'idéal révolutionnaire et la passion amoureuse, se laisse entraîner plus loin qu'elle ne le voudrait. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), l'un des plus grands écrivains indiens du xxe siècle, a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1913. Poète, romancier, dramaturge, musicien, acteur, peintre a lutté pour l'indépendance de l'Inde, contre la partition du Bengale, et a soutenu le mouvement de Gandhi. Quatre chapitres est paru pour la première fois en français aux éditions Zulma en 2005.

Quatre chapitres

My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our Puja trip when we met the man in a train. From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk. He discoursed upon all subjects so confidently that you might think the Disposer of All Things consulted him at all times in all that He did. Hitherto we had been perfectly happy, as we did not know that secret and unheard-of forces were at work, that the Russians had advanced close to us, that the English had deep and secret policies, that confusion among the native chiefs had come to a head. But our newly-acquired friend said with a sly smile: "There happen more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are reported in your newspapers." As we had never stirred out of our homes before, the demeanour of the man struck us dumb with wonder. Be the topic ever so trivial, he would quote science, or comment on the Vedas, or repeat quatrains from some Persian poet; and as we had no pretence to a knowledge of science or the Vedas or Persian, our admiration for him went on increasing, and my kinsman, a theosophist, was firmly convinced that our fellow-passenger must have been supernaturally inspired by some strange "magnetism" or "occult power, " by an "astral body" or something of that kind.

The Hungry Stones

les nouvelles fantastiques de ce recueil sont inédites en langue française.
 dispersées dans différentes revues littéraires de la fin du xixe siècle, jamais réunies du vivant de l'auteur, elles présentent un aspect inconnu de l'oeuvre de tagore, prix nobel de littérature en 1913.  on découvre dans ces pages un merveilleux écrivain de l'étrange, qui sait comment l'homme peut être le jouet de ses rêves.  " l'illusion est la première apparence de la vérité " écrivait tagore.  ses squelettes, esprits, créatures de l'au-delà, en proie aux tourments de l'amour, nous entraînent dans un tourbillon d'images oú la mort n'a pas toujours le dernier mot.

Histoires de fantomes indiens

Every experienced teacher must have noticed the difficulty of instructing Indian children out of books that are specially intended for use in English schools. It is not merely that the subjects are unfamiliar, but almost every phrase has English associations that are strange to Indian ears. The environment in which they are written is unknown to the Indian school boy and his mind becomes overburdened with its details which he fails to understand. He cannot give his whole attention to the language and thus master it quickly.

The present Indian story-book avoids some at least of these impediments. The surroundings described in it are those of the students' everyday life; the sentiments and characters are familiar. The stories are simply told, and the notes at the end will be sufficient to explain obscure passages. It should be possible for the Indian student to follow the pages of the book easily and intelligently. Those students who have read the stories in the original will have the further advantage of knowing beforehand the whole trend of the narrative and thus they will be able to concentrate their thoughts on the English language itself.

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