Description

Modernist and Tagore is the English translation of Abu Sayed Ayyub’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning book in Bengali, Adhunikata O Rabindranath. The volume is a significant attempt that tries to evaluate Tagore’s literary genius in the background of modernism which, accordingly to the author, chiefly consists of a single-minded preoccupation with the body of poetry with the consequent belief in the self-sufficiency of language and in an oppressive and overwhelming consciousness of evil in the world. The author tries, following the great poet’s own view of criticism, to understand the way in which the world expresses itself in the body of Tagore’s poetics creation. The author examines how the awareness of evil grows in Tagore’s work until it becomes pervasive in his final phase.