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  • Rudyard KiplingKim Kim, probably Kipling’s finest novel, was first published in1901, but was the result of many years’ germination and grew in largepart from the author’s lovingly-remembered time in India, as a boy and later asa young man beginning a career in journalism. That first job was in Lahore, where Kipling’s father wasCurator of the Museum. The young Kipling loved to explore the twilight world ofthe Lahore slums, absorbing the color and atmosphere, which would later informthe opening chapter of Kim with its affectionate portrayal of the teeming,noisy, exotic city.Into Lahore comes the dejected but dignified form of theTibetan lama who is hoping to free himself from the Wheel of Life byfinding the River of Immortality. The lama is helped by the charming, curious,lively minded figure of Kim himself, the Irish orphan boy who thinks of himselfas more an Indian than a sahib. From this moment, the novel becomes apicaresque account of Kim’s wanderings across the Punjab and into the Himalayas,accompanying first the lama as his chela (disciple) and then as a servant ofthe British Raj, ostensibly trained as a surveyor but actually groomed for alife playing the Great Game: spying for Colonel Creighton and the Indian SecretService. On one level, then, Kim is an adventure story and a veryenjoyable one. But the novel transcends its outward form: its two maincharacters are both on a quest - the lama to find his river, Kim to discoverhis identity and, perhaps, a parent to replace those he had hardly known. Thefather/son relationship which develops between Kim and the lama takes both ofthem by surprise: at first Kim is merely eager to explore the exciting worldbeyond Lahore, and acting as a chela is simply a convenient means to this end;but as the novel goes on, Kim discovers in himself the need to love and beloved, faithfully serving his master without thought for himself. At the same time the lama’s feelings for Kim areincreasingly paternal, even though such feelings interfere with his yearningfor the immaterial, and there can be few more moving conclusions to a novelthan the great climax where the lama relates ecstatically how he became onewith the Great Soul, yet turned back to this earthly life ‘lest his chela missthe Way’. Thus the lama compromises his unearthly idealism for the sake ofhuman love, while Kim discovers that there is more to life than the pleasurableopportunism of the moment: the Great Game, exciting as it is, is ultimatelysuperficial. So the novel, as well as a being a great love poem to India,embraces and celebrates life in all its diversity and warmth, abolishingdistinction by color, caste or creed: Kim himself is, after all, the ‘LittleFriend of all the World’.Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. Educated inEngland from 1871, he returned to India in 1882 and worked as a journalist,soon acquiring a reputation for cleverly crafted short stories and skillfulverses. Hugely popular in his lifetime, he settled at Bateman’s in Sussex andproduced a vast body of work, including the much-loved children’s tales, TheJungle Book and Just So Stories. He died in 1936. Notes by Perry Keenlyside Madhav Sharma Madhav Sharma, who made his professional acting debut withthe Shakespeareana International Company touring such places as India,Singapore, Malaysia, Sarawak, North Borneo and Hong Kong, works extensively onstage, screen and radio in the UK where he now resides. He was recently seen inTom Stoppard’s Indian Ink.
  • • 作品列表
    • • CD01
      • 作品编号：23227  Kim

      • Kim Meets The Lama

      • Plans For A Pilgrimage

      • Lama And Chela Set Off

      • On The Way To Umballa

      • Establishing The Pedigree

      • The Great Road

      • The Red Bull On The Green Field

      • Kim's Identity Revealed

      • In School

      • Mahbub Ali Gives Paternal Help

      • A New School At Lucknow

      • CD02
      • 作品编号：23227  Kim

      • The Journey To Simla

      • Lurgan Sahib And Hurree Babu

      • Further Education And Graduation

      • Son Of The Charm

      • On The Train

      • E23 Survives - Kim Is Congratulated

      • Plots And The Great Game

      • Hurree Babu In Action

      • Documents And Letters

      • Healing And Delivery

      • The Lama Speaks