Memoirs (Illustrated) -- Tagore's Memoirs

Author: Rabindranath Tagore (India), translated by Xie Bingxin
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: This autobiography, titled Reminiscences, was written in 1916 when he was in the prime of life at the age of fifty-five. The book records only his life and ideals from birth to the age of twenty-four. By the time he turned twenty-five, he had already become a highly accomplished and outstanding lyrical poet among his peers. His father was a religious philosopher, a religious reformer, and a key figure in the Brahmo Samaj. When his grandfather passed away at the age of twenty, he lamented, "Life is so desolate, the world is like a graveyard." He grew up in a family filled with wisdom, talent, passion, and a spirit of freedom. His mother had fifteen children and managed a large family of over a hundred people across four generations, and he was the fifteenth child with six older brothers. He married at the age of twenty-two, arranged by his parents. In this book, he records many people and events related to himself, but he never mentions his marriage or describes his "virtuous Tagore wife." This book is suitable for: scholars or enthusiasts of the history of cultural exchange between China and the world, scholars or enthusiasts of Indian culture, scholars or enthusiasts of the Nobel Prize in Literature, scholars or enthusiasts of poetry, and students at all levels.