Personality

by Rabindranath Tagore

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Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1985

About the author

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."

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 complete works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্র রচনাবলী) in the original Bengali are now available at these third-party websites:
http://www.tagoreweb.in/
http://www.rabindra-rachanabali.nltr....

Reviews

[Anbukarasan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Appealing human personality

Bringing various aspects of humanity like womanhood, education, thoughts / motives

A different kind of work.

Tagore essaying..
We can connect ourselves on various places.

[Ritika · Rating 2 out of 5]

*2.5 stars
Only the first two essays-"What is Art?" and "The world of personality" were engaging, the rest barely made a connection with me.

[Sabah Usmani · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Personality' contains six lectures delivered by Rabindranath Tagore during his visit to the United States in 1916.

Thoughtful and evocative at times but EXTREMELY OUTDATED.

"Woman is endowed with the passive qualities of chastity, modesty, devotion and power of self sacrifice..." Ummm. OK.

[Sujaya · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing book with such intense, beautiful thoughts on Art, Life, Society and World. Every other page offers such fruitful narrative on thought provoking subjects that the reader is left in awe. I recommend this book to all those who love such philosophical books which takes away from the so called mainstream to something more meaningful and soulful.

[Nirav · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a read for the people who want to get into the mind of Tagore. The lectures are on six different topics and kind of outdated. I don't know why I picked up but glad I did. It helps you understand the way Tagore looked at things and why he is such a legend in his own way.

[Genndy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a collection of Tagores lectures on various topics, such as art, education, freedom, purpose of life, god, individual and universal personality, etc. It is quite insightful book with some good toughts, but what will make liberals go wild is that Tagore is mixing religion with every other subject, like a real bhakti. Liberals are, as always, most unliberal. Only downfall of this book is the lecture on the topic of women, because it is obviously populistic, and full of degenerated presumptions (like - if women ruled society, there would absolutely be no exploitation, wars, etc, because, women, you know). In fact, this chapter is very chauvinistic towards men. Men are irrational bullies and all that. Sure. All power to women, and world problems solved. But, of course, I've seen some other reviews of femninist liberals mentioning it as unfair towards women. Of course. Makes me sick. Nice job brainwashing yourselves.

[Janice Raquela · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book
Tagore intensifies the meanings of mere words & explains it

[Russell Stamets · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quite an interesting glimpse at Tagore the man.