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The Home and the World

by Rabindranath Tagore, Sourindro Mohun Tagore, William Radice (Editor), Surendranath Tagore (Translator), Anita Desai (Introduction)

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Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the trag...more

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Published April 26th 2005 by Penguin Classics (first published 1916)

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May 24, 2012 Dina Nabil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

روايه فى اولها بسيطه جدا عن زوجه بتحب زوجها على الطريقه الهنديه من حب و ولع يصل لما شابه العباده

تتطور الاحداث السياسيه فى الهند و زى ما بتأثر على البلد كلها اكيد بتأثر على بيتنا الصغير

الروايه اسمها "البيت و العالم " الجزء الى حكيته ده تقدر تقول كده انه البيت فاما العالم فيكمن فى باقى الروايه اللى بتبين تأثير التضارب السياسى فى نفسيه تلك الزوجه المحبه المخلصه لزوجها العاكفه فى بيتها غير مكترثه بالعالم فأذا بها تتحول لامراه متحرره منطلقه تناقش وتجادل بل ورمز للنساء فى الهند بل للهند جمعاء رجالها...more روايه فى اولها بسيطه جدا عن زوجه بتحب زوجها على الطريقه الهنديه من حب و ولع يصل لما شابه العباده

تتطور الاحداث السياسيه فى الهند و زى ما بتأثر على البلد كلها اكيد بتأثر على بيتنا الصغير

الروايه اسمها "البيت و العالم " الجزء الى حكيته ده تقدر تقول كده انه البيت فاما العالم فيكمن فى باقى الروايه اللى بتبين تأثير التضارب السياسى فى نفسيه تلك الزوجه المحبه المخلصه لزوجها العاكفه فى بيتها غير مكترثه بالعالم فأذا بها تتحول لامراه متحرره منطلقه تناقش وتجادل بل ورمز للنساء فى الهند بل للهند جمعاء رجالها ونساءها و لكنها وسط كل ده بتنسى او تتناسى زوجها العطوف اللى فى اللحظه دى بدا لها ضعيف لين بشكل مبالغ فيكاد ان يسقط من نظرها و تكاد ان تسقط فى الخيانه

ذلك التحول الدرامى العنيف اللى بيأكد ان طاغور كمؤلف ليس مجرد راوى للقصه بل غازل يغزل خيط الدرامه كما يشاء فى قماشه واسعه فيصعد بالاحداث حينا و يهبط بها حينا ....اجمل ما القصه هى النهايه "شبه المفتوحه" فهى مغلقه متوقعه من جهه و مفتوحه قابله للتخيل من جهه اخرى تجعلك فى مصف المؤلفين ممكن تكمل القصه كما تشاء فهو يضعك فى مفترق طريقين شمال و يمين اذا قررت الاتجاه فى احد الطريقين فيؤدى بك ذلك لقصتين مختلفين تماما

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Jan 27, 2013 Tarun rated it 4 of 5 stars

The home and the world by Rabindranath Tagore,sobriquet Gurudev,is a controversial and melodramatic novel which portraits the feelings of myriad populace during the cult of swadeshi movement. The book portraits five main characters namely Nikhil(Maharaja),Bimala(Chota rani),Bara Rani(widow) Sandip(leader of Swadeshi movement) and Amulya(follower of Sandip).Nikhil is a queer,prudent man who does not fetters her consort,Bimala, to worship him which other milieu man coerced their woman to do at tha...more

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Mar 13, 2012 Hend Aboul Gada rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

رواية معقدة شوية بس فيها فكرة فلسفية جميلة
مليانة باشارات فلسفية ورمزية صعب تتفهم كلها او من اول مرة
بس اكيد دى مش مشكلة الرواية :D
اتعاطفت مع بيمالا شوية على الرغم من افعالها
لانى حسيت انه كان غصب عنها واحدة شايفة نفسها عادية بل اقل
فجأة تلاقى حد رافعها لمصاف الالهة كان لازم دة يزلزل حياتها كلها

نيكهيليش بقى تركيبة غريبة وصعب فهمه احيانا تحس فى افعاله ضعف بشع
وفى اللحظة دى تتعاطف مع بيمالا فى رأيها وتعذرها لكن لما تيجى تفكر بموضوعية
تحس اد ايه الراجل يبعث على الاحترام وانه شايف انه حتى لو مارس حقه فى...more رواية معقدة شوية بس فيها فكرة فلسفية جميلة
مليانة باشارات فلسفية ورمزية صعب تتفهم كلها او من اول مرة
بس اكيد دى مش مشكلة الرواية :D
اتعاطفت مع بيمالا شوية على الرغم من افعالها
لانى حسيت انه كان غصب عنها واحدة شايفة نفسها عادية بل اقل
فجأة تلاقى حد رافعها لمصاف الالهة كان لازم دة يزلزل حياتها كلها

نيكهيليش بقى تركيبة غريبة وصعب فهمه احيانا تحس فى افعاله ضعف بشع
وفى اللحظة دى تتعاطف مع بيمالا فى رأيها وتعذرها لكن لما تيجى تفكر بموضوعية
تحس اد ايه الراجل يبعث على الاحترام وانه شايف انه حتى لو مارس حقه فى فرض رأيه
دة مش هيفرحه لان تبعا لتفكيره ((ان لم تكن لى فلست لى ولن يثبت الغضب والغيظ والجدل انك لى)) فى
اللحظة دى تفهمه جدا وتعجب بتفكيره

نيجى للمعلم سانديب بياع كلام شاطر جدا مقنع للغاية
يقدر يقنع اى حد انه يبيع اهله يموت نفسه كمان ويبقى مبسوط كمان
شخصية غربية فيها متناقضات فظيعة

لكن فى رأيى بطل القصة بلا منازع هو اموليا الصغير
شخية تشعر معاها بالبراءة والاخلاص والتفانى
وعلى الرغم من انسياقه ورا افكار سانديب فى البدايه
الا ان فطرته السليمة بتنقذه من سمومه ويكون هو السند الوحيد لبيمالا
وهنا بتتجلى معانى الاخوة لحد التقديس اللى بتشتهر بيها الهند
واللى استطاعت الرواية دى انها تقربنا من فهمها وفهم كتير من الحياة
الهندية وتقاليدها وعاداتها(less)

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Jul 20, 2011 K.D. Oliveros rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to K.D. by: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2010)

Shelves: nobel, classics, 1001-non-core, india

Sir Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was the first non-European and so far, the only Indian to be awarded this most prestigious award any literary artist can dream of.

Bimala (means without mal or blemish in Hindu) is married to Nikhil or Nikhilesh (Lord of the Universe). Theirs is an arranged marriage that was planned even when Bimala was still a little girl. Bimala is neither good-looking, i.e., she comes from lower status and darker complexion, nor rich. Nikh...more

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Aug 22, 2008 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Elizabeth by: Marilyn Felling

an amazing view of swadeshi in the early 1900´s India. The three sotries being told seem to reflect the higher consciousness (Nikihl), the concious (Bimala) and the lower conciousness (Sandip). True Bimala loses her way to sensationalism, terror and nationalism but at some point you must pay the piper to your higher self and reflect at some point, Bimala of course does. I loved that Tagore tells the story from three points of view and is able to captuer the voice of Bimala so clearly. This shoul...more

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Jun 07, 2012 Abhijit Srivastava rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

Love, influence, power, emancipation.
This is the tale of three lives, each burdened by its own predicament; each struggling for its own destruction, for that will be their rebirth. This is the story of Bimala, Nikhil, and Sandip, against the backdrop of the Swadeshi Movement of the Indian Freedom Struggle in the first decade of the 20th century.

The ultimate aim is the freedom of the motherland, but that is easily said than done. In between comes the friction between these characters. They all h...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Derek Davis rated it 5 of 5 stars

In Tagore's 1919 novel, three characters – a maharajah, his wife and a pro-native-culture Indian revolutionary - alternate first-person accounts of their interweaving relationship. Bimala, the wife, slowly moves from blind love for her husband to ensnarement by Sandip, the egomaniacal, charismatic, ruthless revolutionary. Nikhil, the husband, is the moral force who opposes the soulless revolution which he fears will do more harm than help to the native land.

Nikhil is a good man, Sandip a nasty s...more

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Nov 17, 2012 Nishant Sharma rated it 4 of 5 stars

This novel is unlike any i have ever read.
the narrative is in the form of monologues of the three main characters namely, Nikhil ,Bimala(his wife) and Sandip(his friend).
Having read British and American novels, i was excited about reading this Indian novel. I wasnt expecting too much and knew not much about Rabindranath Tagore Either. I was simply curious.
Since this is in my college course i got the Worldview Edition (See my profile pic). This edition contains some knowledgeable essays which...more

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Nov 23, 2010 مينا ساهر rated it 3 of 5 stars

أول روايه أقراها لطاغور .. ينطلق طاغور هنا من نقطه البيت كوحده صغيرة و ينتهي إلى العالم
هناك ثلاثه أصوات سرديه .. أولها بيمالا الزوجه و التي ترمز أعتقد إلى الإيجو و زوجها نيكهيل الممتلئ بحكمه الهند و يرمز إلى السوبر إيجو ثم سنديب بابو و الرامز إلى الاد
الأحداث نفسها في النصف الأول للروايه ليست شيقه و إن كانت مليئه بالأفكار مليئه بالحكم .. أكثر ما ضر الروايه هو كثرة الحكم الموجوده بيها ..
كنت أحب سنديب المنتهز حين يحكي فحكاويه و هو زعيم حركه شعبيه كبرى جدير برئيس عصابه انتهازي

لاريب أن طاغور المفكر...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Nivedita Bansal rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, indian-book-challenge-2013, also-watched-the-film

As soon as I finished reading, I wanted to read it all over again. I usually highlight text which I think is worth reading again and here I ended up highlighting almost everything. There’s so much in this read which you would like to think over that a single read will just not suffice.

The story is set against the backdrop of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, a social movement started as a protest against the partition of Bengal during early 1900s, which involved boycotting British goods and promotin...more As soon as I finished reading, I wanted to read it all over again. I usually highlight text which I think is worth reading again and here I ended up highlighting almost everything. There’s so much in this read which you would like to think over that a single read will just not suffice.

The story is set against the backdrop of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, a social movement started as a protest against the partition of Bengal during early 1900s, which involved boycotting British goods and promoting Indian industries. We all are aware of the importance of this movement and its impact on nation’s struggle for independence but this book focuses on its impact on common people especially the poor class and how they suffered in the name of Bande Mataram. It presents an interesting, insightful and different view of the darker side of this movement.

The story revolves around three main characters, Nikhil- a well educated rich landlord with modern and liberal outlook, his childhood friend Sandip- a revolutionary and influential nationalist leader who came to stay with Nikhil and Nikhil’s wife Bimala- a faithful wife confined to the house but when encouraged by her husband, explores the outer world and becomes an active participant in the nationalist movement. I loved the way the story is being narrated by three main characters, giving the readers a chance to see the events from three different points of view. The emotions and inner conflicts of these characters have beautifully been explained with the help of metaphors.

I especially liked the way the character of Bimala is portrayed with such sensitivity. The poor woman was too naïve and innocent to understand the selfish nature of Sandip and was carried away by his charismatic personality and his words, little realising where she is treading. Torn between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, home and outside world, Nikhil and Sandip, she couldn’t see what was coming. Soon she finds out Sandip’s true colors. In Bimala’s words, “When a woman’s passion is roused, she loses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with all that we are.” With this realisation, she tries to do everything within her reach to set the things right and in the process reaches to a higher level of maturity and spiritual awakening. I absolutely adored Nikhil’s take on this whole matter. He was very much aware of Bimala’s obsession with Sandip but he never forced anything upon her, neither did he ask Sandip to leave his house. He believed that “If Bimal is not mine, she is not; and no fuming, no fretting, or arguing will serve to prove that she is. If my heart is breaking, let it break! This will not make the world bankrupt, nor even me; for man is so much greater than the things he loses in his life. The very ocean of tears has its other shore; else none would have ever wept.” He never used his power as a husband just because he had it, rather allowed her to experience the outer world through Sandip and stood behind her, ready to support her whenever she needed him. His love and sensibility won Bimala’s heart at the end.

Nikhil and Sandip extremely differed in their ideas and strategies. Sandip believed that one must not hesitate to sacrifice even his conscience and shame to serve his country. In his words, “My theory of life makes me certain that the Great is cruel. To be just is for ordinary men, it is reserved for the great to be unjust. Whenever an individual or nation becomes incapable of perpetrating injustice it is swept into the dustbin of the world.” Whereas in Nikhil’s view winning such success was success gained at the cost of the soul and the soul is greater than success. He was strictly against violence and was considerate towards his fellow countrymen especially towards poor helpless people. He says “My worship for ‘right’ is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring curse upon it. Those who make sacrifices for their country’s sake are indeed her servants but those who compel others to make them in her name are her enemies. They would cut freedom at the root, to gain it at the top.”
They had different opinions. For instance,

On the role of Muslims: Sandip-“Muslims to be our brethren, we have come to realise that we shall never be able to bring them wholly round to our side. So they must be suppressed altogether and made to understand that we are the masters.”
Nikhil- “If the idea of a united India is a true one, Muslims are a necessary part of it.”

On the idea of representing India as a goddess: Sandip- “Illusions are necessary for lesser minds and to this class the greater portion of the world belongs. That is why divinities are set up in every country to keep up the illusions of the people, for men are only too well aware of their weakness.”
Nikhil- “God is necessary to clear away our illusions. The divinities which keep them alive are false gods.”

This way the novel shows the conflict between two ideologies and leaves it to the readers to decide ‘right’ and ‘wrong’. There’s a lot of philosophy but I must mention here that it should not be mistaken as a boring read full of speeches and metaphors. In fact it keeps the readers fully immersed with its elements of suspense and thrill. The plot is very engrossing and once you are midway through it, there’s no way putting it down. Even when you are finished reading, the characters are going to stay with you for a long time.

I also watched the Bengali film adaptation by Satyajit Ray. Only he could have done justice to this book. Movie is equally beautiful and I liked it as much as I liked the book.

Highly recommended.
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Jun 08, 2011 mp04 rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Home and the World is a literary masterpiece by Rabindranath Tagore. Set as a love triangle in the backdrop of Swadesi movement in the then Bengal, it is essentially an exploration of the noosphere surrounding the revolution, encapsulating Tagore's personal critique on the movement's ideology.

All the three central characters of the novel are distressed, while treading their paths for greatness. Bimala is a young wife who seeks greatness (which every "woman is entitled to") through utmost dev...more The Home and the World is a literary masterpiece by Rabindranath Tagore. Set as a love triangle in the backdrop of Swadesi movement in the then Bengal, it is essentially an exploration of the noosphere surrounding the revolution, encapsulating Tagore's personal critique on the movement's ideology.

All the three central characters of the novel are distressed, while treading their paths for greatness. Bimala is a young wife who seeks greatness (which every "woman is entitled to") through utmost devotion and surrender, and she finds the cause in the passionate desires of her husband's friend and in the nationalist movement. Nikhil, a rich businessman and Bimala's husband, is a noble soul who seeks to be just by abiding to his spiritual principles while he is being denounced as a traitor by the countrymen. Sandip is Nikhil's childhood friend and local leader of the nationalist movement who falls in love with Bimala. He seeks glory through power and material success, and considers restraint as a sign of weakness.

Each of the three characters narrate their trials and tribulations in first person in long monologues ('tell, not show'). While this style takes some time getting used to, by the time one finishes the book it becomes clear that Tagore could not have invented a more suitable technique for narration. There is but only a minimal tangible action and the central drama of the story unfolds within the characters, slowly and turbulently... and giving three distinct perspectives for the readers to brood on.
With fluency and lyric Tagore turns the characters inside out... something inconceivable for me as a writer just yet.

The crux of the novel lies in the philosophical debates (illusion v/s truth, pragmatism/materialism v/s spiritual idealism, passion v/s virtues) it is rich with. They are relevant and enthralling, and raise important questions that are applicable for all such expeditions.

Having been raised to sing Bande Mataram with supreme pride (and seeing the recent political dramas in the country), I find the book unique and extremely important for this generation, and the next.

Can't wait to watch Satyajit Ray's cinematic adaptation!
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Dec 03, 2012 Jori Richardson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-owned, adultery

A complex and beautiful story about a woman in 1900's India. Bimala is a beautiful married woman who struggles between the traditional culture she was raised to follow, and her husband Nikhil's ideas about individuality, equality, and knowledge. When a young revolutionary-thinking man named Sandip comes into their lives, Bimala discovers feelings and thoughts that she had not previously experienced.
I very much enjoyed reading this book by Bengali author Tagore. The rich culture and exotic settin...more

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Apr 27, 2013 Janice Raquela rated it 3 of 5 stars

This companion to Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World examines this seminal novel from a variety of different perspectives. Taking into account Tagore's critique of religious nationalism and the novel's historical contexts, the authors consider its form and, in particular, questions of gender and nationalism. Issues of gender are analysed in terms of the creations of modern selfhood, the problems representing the woman as nation and the crises of masculinity. The multifaceted implicatio...more

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Sep 29, 2011 Bob rated it 4 of 5 stars

The three main characters seem a bit two-dimensional at times - mouthpieces for articulating the competing points of view around the nascent Indian independence movement of the early 20th century, particularly the Swadeshi movement - but for all that are frequently moving and engaging, if at times in a slightly soap opera way - or, one might say, somewhat comparable to Bertolt Brecht's monologic speechifying!

Despite Tagore's Nobel prize and prolific output of stories, songs and poems, his legacy...more

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Aug 29, 2011 Lisa P rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a hard book to review. It wasn't even easy to assign a star value to it. I am a huge, huge fan of Tagore ji's poetry, that cannot be denied. Even in his English translations he writes with such clarity of purpose and paints such sparkling and heartbreaking images with his prose. I picked up The Home and the World for a couple of reasons - one, I needed to read more about the India Independence movement, and two, my aforementioned delight in all things Tagore.

What I got was a difficult,...more

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Feb 14, 2010 Ram rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: indian-fiction

Just finished reading "Home and the World" by Rabindranath Tagore, my first of this great man of literature from India. It was made as a well known movie called "Ghare Bhaire" by another famous son of India Satyajit Ray. This book narrates the story from the eyes of three protagonists and from that point of view is slow to get into. About little more than half way through, the narrative picks up pace and Tagore with his dramatisation manages to infuse an element of suspense and thrill in the con...more

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Jun 03, 2012 Daniel rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Providence leaves our life moulded in the rough, – its object being that we ourselves should put the finishing touches, shaping it into its final form to our taste.” The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore is, I think, a classic. It is concerned with three little people, so small compared to the Indian indepedence movement whose current is swiftly carrying them into a new world. For each of the three main characters, Tagore goes to the heart and then some. Sandip is a professional revolut...more

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Apr 26, 2013 Ahmad amar rated it 4 of 5 stars

ظننت في بادئ الأمر أن تاجور إختذل في شخصياته الثلاث الخير و الشر و الإنسان التائه بينهم
لكن فيما بعد أدركت أن كل شخصية لها فلسفة خاصة

تُسيطر على "نيكهل" فلسفة الخير والجمال والرِضا ولكن تمتزج بها السذاجة بقدر كافي لإلحاق الضرر بنفسه

وتُسيطر على "سنديب" فلسفة النَفعية المُطلقة والشر والقوة مثلما يرد على لسانه "أنا أريد هذا الشيء،وهو هنا،فلآخذه!" ولكنّه أعطى مثال أن الإنسان مهما بلغ به الشر من ذروة فهو ليس شر مُطلق، فنور الإله داخل الإنسان لا ينطفئ

ولا أدري ماهية فلسفة "بيمالا" .. ربما لم تعتنق أي فل...more

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Oct 02, 2011 مؤيّد rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

جميلة لكن كثرة الحكم تجعل القراءة مملة أحياناً

فصول القصة عرضت من ثلاث وجهات تعكس شخصية الراوي بإتقان

بيمالا - امرأة عادية
زوجها نيكهيل - رجل حكيم ومن عائلة ثرية
سنديب بابو - قائد في حركة السواديشي

القصة كانت ترميز لما يحدث في الهند

تتحدث عن بيمالا التي جذبتها الكلمات الرنانة لسنديب، لكن بقيت حواجز ضميرها التي يمثلها زوجها

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Jan 27, 2012 أحمد نفادي rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: مكتبتي

حسنا انها أول رواية لي مع طاغور
رواية غنية جداااا بالمعاني علي الرغم من بساطتها
تستطيع تناولها من جوانب عدة وكل جانب يسلمك للاخر
فتستطيع من خلالها معرفة الحياة الاجتماعية الهندية وتقديس الزوجة لزوجها و صراعهم مع الاحتلال
وتستطيع فيها أن تجد مقولات وأفكار تغنيك عن الكثير
لكن أكثر ما هو مميز فيها هو صراعها الانساني
الشخصيات الثلاث شخصية واحدة
كنا قد درسنا ف الثانوية العام نظرية فرويد والأنا والهو والأنا الأعلي ولكننا لم نكن مستوعبين أو بمعني آخر كلام نظري نعرفه للامتحان
لكن ها هنا وجدته ماثلا بكل حذافي...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Ash Chakraborty rated it 3 of 5 stars

Recommended to Ash by: social drama, indian swadesi movement, tagore

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An epic Bengali drama painted by the Nobel laureate - Rabindranath Tagore and translated later by Surendranath Tagore (uncertain of the relationship), with elaborate characters laid out against the backdrop of a British-occupied Bengal of the early 1900s. The primary characters range from an idealistic and intelligent Landlord with a superior grasp of the concept of fairness whilst unable to implement that in social life, the typical naive, family-polit...more

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Jan 07, 2008 Maggie rated it 3 of 5 stars

a fictional account of a few different aspects of the social movement in bengal in the early 1900s called swadeshi, which focuses on using locally manufactured items instead of importing foreign items. narrated by the three main characters, Nikhil-the owner of the estates on which the story takes place, Sandip-a revolutionary who lives with Nikhil and foments revolution on his estates, and Bimala-Nikhils wife who falls in love with Sandip.
i like the way Tagore uses the three different voices of...more

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Oct 02, 2007 MacK rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Tagore is markedly different from most contemporary Indian authors. While they offer a window for the Western world to observe the changing nature of a modernizing India, Tagore forces the reader to sit through a detailed lesson of the philosophical, and sociological life of an average Indian.

Part of that is, naturally, the context in which he was writing. He is not part of modernizing India, but the nobel laureate who was Indian before the country was independent. He agitated against the coloni...more

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Oct 17, 2012 De lezer Regeert rated it 5 of 5 stars

Read it in Dutch. Frederik van Eeden was naast schrijver ook vertaler ( Wie wist dat?). In 1921 vertaalde hij 'Huis en waereld', een roman van de Indiase auteur en Nobelprijswinnaar Literatuur in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore. De roman is een reflectie op de Indiase samenleving rond de eeuwwisseling ( 19de en 20ste eeuw) en die reflectie gaat niet zonder kritiek. http://delezerregeert.blogspot.nl/201...

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May 20, 2010 Nandini Goel rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Jan 07, 2013 Ahmed Yousri ataweyya rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

قرأت هذه الرواية فى طبعة قديمة من روايات الهلال تعود الى السبعينيات
ترجمة د شكرى عياد جاءت خلقا جديدا و ليست مجرد نقل للالفاظ

لو كان على المرء ان يملأ الفجوة بين الليل و النهار قليلا قليلا ..لاحتاج الى عمر الأبد...و لكن الشمس تشرق فيتبدد الظلام و تكفى لحظة للتغلب على امتداد غير محدود -تاجور
هى رواية عن التعصب للوطن حين يقابل الحب العاقل للوطن ..من ينتصر فى النهاية

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Jul 28, 2011 Natascia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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one of my favorite - brilliant, complex novel where the three characters take turns telling the story from their own point of view, beautiful political and moral parallel to the struggles and conflicts India underwent in the days of upheaval against the British Empire. Tagore is magnificent.

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Mar 01, 2009 Julia Pheifer rated it 5 of 5 stars

I just finished the book and loved every page. I like to underline things--beautiful passages, interesting thoughts, etc.--but I stopped because I was underlining everything. A wonderful story, interesting background to the action, interesting philosophy from Tagore. Loved it.

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Mar 08, 2011 Bodea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another class read. The author does an excellent job intertwining the lives of Bimala, Nikhil, and Sandip to the independence movement of India in the 1900's. If you're looking for a book that leaves you with something to tink about (on so many different levels), this is it.

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Nov 08, 2012 Jayakrishna Kothapalli rated it 4 of 5 stars

Classic is the word that came into my mind when I started writing this review.Mr.Tagore is absolutely a versatile genius , no wonder as he is the first Non-European to receive Nobel Prize.

Coming to the basic plot of the book, the book revolves around three well etched characters named Bimala,Sandip and Nikhil. Each character tries to prove his/her conviction to be right. At one point of time while I was reading the book , I have realized it to be more than a book but a poet singing his poem whic...more

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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."

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