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Rabindranath Tagore ( (listen); born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), and also known by his sobriquets Gurudev, Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".

A Brahmo from Calcutta with ancestral gentry roots in Jessore, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, he denounced the British Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy also endures in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

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 Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

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Der alte Geist Indiens offenbart sich auch in der christlichen Religion und erweist sich auch im heutigen Leben wirksam. Autor Rabindranath Tagore beschreibt den Menschen als solches, der ständig auf der Suche nach etwas ist, was mehr bedeutet als Nahrung und Kleidung, nämlich die Suche nach sich selbst.

"Ein Buch für Sinnsuchende, ein Buch als Lebenshilfe... enspannt den westlichen Geist, lenkt unsere Gedanken auf das Wesentliche und stellt ein großes Stück Indischer Kultur und Weisheit vor... wunderschön geschrieben..." - Kunde bei Amazon Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) war ein bengalischer Dichter, Philosoph, Maler, Komponist und Musiker. 1913 erhielt er als erster Asiate den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Tagore revolutionierte die bengalische Literatur mit Werken wie "Das Heum und die Welt" oder "Gitanjali" sowie mit unzähligen Gedichten, Kurzgeschichten, Briefen, Essays und Bildern. Über 20 Bücher von ihm erschienen von 1914 bis 1921 in englischer Sprache und wurden anschließend in viele weitere europäische Sprachen übersetzt.
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