Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain

The paper is a concise review of the reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain and the crucial role played by the Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí in promoting the poetry of the “great Bard of Bengal,” not only in Spain but in the whole Spanish‑speaking world, with th...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:fc8e86b8eabc425cad744d5a75d4dff72021-11-27T13:09:10ZOf Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain10.12797/Politeja.13.2016.40.141733-67162391-6737https://doaj.org/article/fc8e86b8eabc425cad744d5a75d4dff72021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/politeja/article/view/2219https://doaj.org/toc/1733-6716https://doaj.org/toc/2391-6737 The paper is a concise review of the reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain and the crucial role played by the Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí in promoting the poetry of the “great Bard of Bengal,” not only in Spain but in the whole Spanish‑speaking world, with their marvelous translations produced mostly between 1913 and 1922. The piece describes how biographical factors (the couple’s own love story), literary contexts (the search for a new lyrical voice in Spanish poetry after modernism) and the progressive intellectual and political milieu of the first decades of the twentieth century converged in the unique response Tagore received in Spain, though he never visited the country. It also analyses why the admiration for Tagore persisted for decades even after the changes brought by Franco’s regime. Guillermo RodríguezKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticleRabindranath TagoreJuan Ramón JimenezZenobia Camprubítranslation studiesmodern Spanish literaturecultural studiesLawKPolitical scienceJENPLPoliteja, Vol 13, Iss 1 (40) (2021)
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PL
topic Rabindranath Tagore
Juan Ramón Jimenez
Zenobia Camprubí
translation studies
modern Spanish literature
cultural studies
Law
K
Political science
J
spellingShingle Rabindranath Tagore
Juan Ramón Jimenez
Zenobia Camprubí
translation studies
modern Spanish literature
cultural studies
Law
K
Political science
J
Guillermo Rodríguez
Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain
description The paper is a concise review of the reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain and the crucial role played by the Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife Zenobia Camprubí in promoting the poetry of the “great Bard of Bengal,” not only in Spain but in the whole Spanish‑speaking world, with their marvelous translations produced mostly between 1913 and 1922. The piece describes how biographical factors (the couple’s own love story), literary contexts (the search for a new lyrical voice in Spanish poetry after modernism) and the progressive intellectual and political milieu of the first decades of the twentieth century converged in the unique response Tagore received in Spain, though he never visited the country. It also analyses why the admiration for Tagore persisted for decades even after the changes brought by Franco’s regime.
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title Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain
title_short Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain
title_full Of Love, Loss and Love Lost: The (uncompleted) Reception of Rabindranath Tagore in Spain
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