![]() Adversely to this, worth mentioning was his most influential critic, György Lukács, who considered him tedious and unimaginative and this novel as a mere one-sided propagandistic pamphlet. The Home and the World is the novel of the senses, and all of us agreed on his sensory and natural imagery being one of the best features of the novel, together with the novel’s interesting collaboration of the narrators, contentious philosophical discourse, and poetic language (similarities made between Tagore the writer and Tagore the painter). His novel is often considered to be a part of the Indian literary canon, yet we tried to praise as well as criticise Tagore’s genius. He also spent some time at our university and even though he hadn’t graduated at UCL (not a direct result of a pandemic as it is the case today), his studies didn’t escape our discussions and comments on him and other prominent “episodic” students of London universities. Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 and shaped the Eastern viewpoint on nationalism and Indian culture. The first book our club discussed in June was the compelling The Home and the World (1916) by Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali writer, musician, and artist. ![]() The summary of the discussion is written by Lucia Magathova This week’s session was lead by Sara Karim ![]()
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