Tagore's Gitanjali A New Translation with the Bengali Originals and the Tagore Translations
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.08.2026
Verlag
ParabaasSeitenzahl
300
Maße (L/B/H)
20,3/13,3/1,8 cm
Gewicht
380 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-946582-50-8
In 1912, Rabindranath Tagore's own English translations of his devotional Bengali songs - published as Gitanjali, or "Song Offerings" - introduced him to the West, won the admiration of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, and led, within a year, to the Nobel Prize in Literature. More than a century later, translator Prasenjit Gupta returns to all 103 of those songs and asks a deceptively simple question: what happens to Tagore's work when a translator stays as close to the original words as English allows, rather than reshaping them, as Tagore himself often did, into the smoother, more conventionally "poetic" English his Edwardian audience expected? This edition prints all three versions side by side for every poem - the Bengali original, Tagore's own celebrated translation, and Gupta's new, more literal rendering - so readers can trace, line by line, exactly where the two translations diverge and why. In a candid, often self-deprecating preface, Gupta walks through specific examples of Tagore's choices: the lines he compressed, the images he expanded, the stanzas he silently dropped. A closing afterword takes up a harder question still - what it means, politically and historically, for a translation to carry a once-colonized language into the language of the colonizer, and whether it matters who is doing the carrying. The result is at once a devotional classic, a study in the art of translation, and a quiet act of homage from one Bengali writer to another. Gupta - whose earlier translations include the stories of Nirmal Verma - brings the same patient, word-by-word fidelity here that distinguished that earlier work, in service of poems that have lost none of their strangeness, tenderness, or reach toward the divine. For readers of Tagore, for students and teachers of translation, and for anyone who has wondered how much of a poem survives its journey into another language.
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