01762nam a22002057a 4500 OSt 20260715122320.0 260715b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788184951646 AACR-II RT 891.443 RAB Tagore, Rabindranath 1735 Farewell my friend Mumbai Jaico Publishing House 2013 182p. The original Bengali novel Shesher Kavita (lit. Last Poem) was published in 1929. The author draws an amusing picture of an ultramodern Bengali intellectual whose Oxford education, while giving him a superiority complex, has induced in him a craze for conscious originality which results in a deliberate and frivolous contrariness to all accepted opinion and convention. His aggressive selfcomplacence, however, receives a shock when as the result of an accidental meeting he falls in love with, and wins in return the heart of, a quite different product of modern culture – a highly educated girl of fine sensibility and deep feelings. This love being more or less genuine and different from his previous experience of coquetry, releases his own submerged depth of sincerity, which he finds hard to adjust to the habits of sophistry and pose, practised so long. In the process he manages to strike a new romantic attitude. The struggle makes of him a curiously pathetic figure – one who is being worked against his grain. The tragedy is understood by the girl, who releases him from his troth and disappears from his life. The last poem which she addresses to her lover gives evidence of the depth of feeling of which she was capable. Bengali literature 21048 Rabindranath Tagore 21049 ddc B 0 0 ddc 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-07-15 350.00 0 RT 891.443 RAB 179533 2026-07-15 2026-07-15 B 361723 361723