My Dear Master
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAX700 |
Author: | Martin Kampchen and Prasanta Kumar Paul |
Publisher: | Visva-Bharati, Kolkata |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2010 |
ISBN: | 9788175222298 |
Pages: | 144 |
Cover: | PAPERBACK |
Other Details | 8.50 X 5.50 inch |
Weight | 190 gm |
Book Description
Helene Meyer-Franck was Rabindranath Tagore's most dedicated German translator. This work of translation led her and her husband, Heinrich Mey-er-Benfey, to engage in a correspondence with their "dear Master" which lasted eighteen years (1920-1938). Against the background of Germany's troubled period between the two world wars, we witness their meetings in Hamburg and Berlin and their struggle to spread the message of good-will and peace through Rabindranath's writings. This is the only extensive correspondence the Poet had with a German and one of t most moving and revealing exchanges he had with any intellectual in the West.
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