01885nam a22002177a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001200080082001900092100003300111245002300144260004200167300001000209520124400219650003101463650003101494942001101525952011201536999001901648OSt20260715122320.0260715b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788184951646  cAACR-II  aRT 891.443 RAB  aTagore, Rabindranath  91735  aFarewell my friend  aMumbaibJaico Publishing House c2013  a182p.  aThe 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.  aBengali literature 921048  aRabindranath Tagore921049  2ddccB  00102ddc4070aLBSNAAbLBSNAAd2026-07-15g350.00l0oRT 891.443 RABp179533r2026-07-15w2026-07-15yBA  c361723d361723