吉姆(诺顿英国文学评论系列) Kim
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作者： Rudyard Kipling 著
出 版 社： 华文出版社
出版时间： 2002-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 458印刷时间： 2002/12/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780393966503包装： 平装内容简介
One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore:
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.
From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'"
In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic. --Alix Wilber --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
目录
Preface
The Text of Kim
Backgrounds
MAP: North India 1857
MAP: Modern India
MAP: The Grand Trunk Road
SHORT STORIES
Lispeth
To Be Filed for Reference
POEMS
Recessional
The White Man's Burden
LETFERS
To Margaret Burne-Jones, [27] September 1885
To Margaret Burne-Jones, 28 November 1885-11 January 1886
To E. K. Robinson, 30 April 1886
To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY
Rudyard Kipling From Something of Myself
Charles Carrington [The Origins of Kim]
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
J. H. Millar [A 'New Kipling']
William Morton Payne [Mr. Kipling's EnthrallingNew Novel]
Arthur Bartlett Maurice Rudyard Kipling's Kim
Nobel Prize Committee The Nobel Prize forLiterature, 1907
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Blair B. Kling Kim in Historical Context
Ann Parry [Recovering the Connection Between Kimand Contemporary History]
Criticism
Noel Annan Kipling's Place in the History of Ideas
Irving Howe The Pleasures of Kim
Edward W. Said [Kim as Imperialist Novel]
Ian Baucom [The Survey of India]
A. Michael Matin Kim, Invasion-Scare Literature,and the Russian Threat to British India
John A. McClure [Kipling's Richest Dream]
Michael Hollington [Storytelling in Kim]
Parama Roy [Kim, the Myth of the Nation, and
National Identity]
Sara Suleri [Kim's Colonial Education]
Patrick Williams Kim and Orientalism
Suvir Kaul Kim, or How to Be Young, Male, and
British in Kipling's India
Mark Kinkead-Weekes [The Ending of Kim]
Zohreh T. Sullivan What Happens at the End of Kim?
Rudyard Kipling: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography