Kim, English edition
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Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim wants to play the "great game" of imperialism. He is also spiritually bound to the lama, an old ascetic...
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Rudyard Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Born in India and growing into early manhood, Kim wants to play the "great game" of imperialism. He is also spiritually bound to the lama, an old ascetic priest. As the two men become fired by a quest that takes them across the country, Kim tries to reconcile these opposing impulses. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, "Kim" captures at once the opulence of India's exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj.
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Chapter IOh ye who tread the Narrow Way
By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,
Be gentle when the heathen pray
To Buddha at Kamakura!
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. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that fire-breathing dragon, hold the Punjab; for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror s loot.
There was some justification for Kim, he had kicked Lala Dinanath s boy off the trunnions, since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white a poor white of the very poorest. The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim s mother s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel s family and had married Kimball O Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment. He afterwards took a post on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi railway, and his regiment went home without him. The wife died of cholera in Ferozepore, and O Hara fell to drink and loafing up and down the line with the keen-eyed three-year-old baby. Societies and chaplains anxious for the child, tried to catch him, but O Hara drifted away, till he came across the woman who took opium and learned the taste from her, and died as poor whites die in India. His estate at death consisted of three papers one he called his ne varietur because those words were written below his signature thereon, and another his clearance-certificate. The third was Kim s birth-certificate. Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious opium hours, would yet make
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little Kimball a man. On no account was Kim to part with them, for they belonged to a great piece of magic such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue and white Jadoo-Gher the Magic House, as we name the Masonic Lodge. It would, he said, all come right some day, and Kim s horn would be exalted between pillars monstrous pillars of beauty and strength. The Colonel himself, riding on a horse, at the head of the finest regiment in the world, would attend to Kim, little Kim that should have been better off than his father. Nine hundred first-class devils, whose god was a Red Bull on a green field, would attend to Kim, if they had not forgotten O Hara poor O Hara that was gang-foreman on the Ferozepore line. Then he would weep bitterly in the broken rush chair on the verandah. So it came about after his death that the woman sewed parchment, paper, and birth-certificate into a leather amulet-case which she strung round Kim s neck.
And some day, she said, confusedly remembering O Hara s prophecies, there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and dropping into English nine hundred devils.
Ah, said Kim, I shall remember. A Red Bull and a Colonel on a horse will come, but first, my father said, come the two men making ready the ground for these matters. That is how, my father said, they always did; and it is always so when men work magic.
If the woman had sent Kim up to the local Jadoo-Gher with those papers, he would, of course, have been taken over by the Provincial Lodge and sent to the Masonic Orphanage in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she d
And some day, she said, confusedly remembering O Hara s prophecies, there will come for you a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and dropping into English nine hundred devils.
Ah, said Kim, I shall remember. A Red Bull and a Colonel on a horse will come, but first, my father said, come the two men making ready the ground for these matters. That is how, my father said, they always did; and it is always so when men work magic.
If the woman had sent Kim up to the local Jadoo-Gher with those papers, he would, of course, have been taken over by the Provincial Lodge and sent to the Masonic Orphanage in the Hills; but what she had heard of magic she d
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Autoren-Porträt von Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rudyard Kipling
- 2011, 432 Seiten, Masse: 13,1 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Harish Trivedi, Jan Montefiore
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141442379
- ISBN-13: 9780141442372
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureA work of positive genius, as radiant all over with intellectual light as the sky of a frosty night with stars. The Atlantic Monthly
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