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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 of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, "To read the novel now is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native boy's journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of the white man's world: how the deeper Buddhist idea of the illusion of the self, of time and space, makes bearable for him the anguish of abandoning his childhood."… (plus d'informations)
MarthaJeanne: I think that Ash in Far Pavillions was based partly on Kim. Both books deal with the ambivalence between cultures of those who were brought up in a different culture to the one they belonged to by birth and later education. Both are also great adventure stories that take place during the British Raj in India. The big difference being that Kim only deals with childhood, but Ash has to go on to life as an adult.… (plus d'informations)
CGlanovsky: Orphaned kid with plenty of street-smarts embarks on a dangerous journey interwoven with high-stakes matters from the adult world (Slavery/Russo-British Espionage).
thorold: Two books that demonstrate that it's possible to use a Buddhist holy man to power the plot of a complex modern novel without getting all mystical and Hermann Hesse.
wandering_star: Both these books feature cunning, clever spies who speak several languages and can pass for several different nationalities - they are also both great adventures.
> critiquesLibres.com : Kim Rudyard Kipling Difficile de s'attaquer à la critique d'un Nobel, surtout quand il s'appelle Kipling. Surtout aussi quand le livre en question est Kim, et qu'il représente un peu son ...
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Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way
By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,
Be gentle when the heathen pray
To Buddha at Kamakura!
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He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum.
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He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won salvation for himself and his beloved.
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 of Imperialism. During his many adventures, he befriends a sage old Tibetan lama who transforms his life. As Pankaj Mishra asserts in his Introduction, "To read the novel now is to notice the melancholy wisdom that accompanies the native boy's journey through a broad and open road to the narrow duties of the white man's world: how the deeper Buddhist idea of the illusion of the self, of time and space, makes bearable for him the anguish of abandoning his childhood."
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GROUP READ-- KIM by Rudyard Kipling
5 févr. 2012 - Plusieurs pistes dans Kim : celle du lama et de la recherche spirituelle, celle de l'espionnage. Kim, connaissant le bazar de Lahore comme sa poche ...
> critiquesLibres.com : Kim Rudyard Kipling
Difficile de s'attaquer à la critique d'un Nobel, surtout quand il s'appelle Kipling. Surtout aussi quand le livre en question est Kim, et qu'il représente un peu son ...
> Le Jeu de Kim (Kipling) | carnets de voyages de miriam
4 févr. 2012 ... C’est un jeu bien connu des scouts que j’ai pratiqué dans mon enfance. Bien avant d’avoir entendu parler du roman et de Kipling ...