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Rudyard Kipling: Kim. . . . a master work of imperialism . . . a rich and absolutely fascinating, but nevertheless profoundly embarrassing novel. (Edward W. Said) Few modern English readers could enjoy Rudyard Kipling's Kim [1] in the way Kipling (1865-1936) intended it to be enjoyed. Kipling was an Imperialist, and Kim embodies attitudes ...
5 de mai. de 2011 · Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile ...
Kim celebrates their friendship and their journeys in a beautiful but hostile environment, capturing the opulence of the exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Filled with rich description and vivid characters, this beguiling coming of age story is considered Kipling’s masterpiece. For more than seventy years, Penguin ...
12 de jun. de 2008 · Kim. Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics ...
Kim. Filled with lyrical, exotic prose and nostalgia for Rudyard Kipling’s native India, Kim is widely acknowledged as the author’s greatest novel and a key element in his winning the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the tale of an orphaned sahib and the burdensome fate that awaits him when he is unwittingly dragged into the Great Game ...
Publicado en 1901, Kim es una de las obras más emblemáticas de Rudyard Kipling, un autor cuya conexión con la India y su cultura es innegable. En esta novela, el lector se sumerge en un relato lleno de aventuras, misticismo y espionaje, que combina magistralmente elementos de la historia y la ficción, el humor y la poesía, el Oriente y el Occidente.
Rudyard Kipling All'età di sei anni fu mandato a studiare in Inghilterra. Nel 1882 tornò in India come giornalista e fu in questo periodo che cominciò a elaborare i temi politici e sociali che poi diventarono i motivi caratteristici delle sue principali opere: il rapporto tra i dominatori bianchi e gli indigeni, il ruolo di civilizzatori degli inglesi e la coscienza storica della millenaria ...
