River steps

Author: Rabindranath Tagore (India), Translated by He Bin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "The first love always stays in one's memory for a lifetime. The first letter, The first tear. And beautiful dreams are like thin glass, shattered in the first sorrow. In this collection of Tagore's short stories, Tagore tells us several small stories of ordinary people with poetic prose. Most of the protagonists are women. There is a miserable girl forced to marry a mad husband, a devoted woman who waits for love but ends up begging on the streets, a pioneering girl who dedicates herself to women's liberation and swears never to marry, and a grieving woman who returns from the dead but is not accepted by this world. The writing style used in these stories may be scoffed at by young people accustomed to online reading and writing. Indeed, such words lack any cleverness, only the author's passionate heart quietly surging. When these women with diverse personalities and backgrounds all end their lives in abnormal ways, none of us as readers can help but be moved. The true power of a poet lies here, in the ability to strike the heart with plain and simple words, with simple and pure plots. At this moment, who still cares about adjectives and sentence structures deliberately?