I've got nothing positive to say about the colonialist programme with which he's most associated but #Kipling's short stories are a marvel. His prose is so controlled and modern, he throws us into minimally specified contexts, and he can sketch a character or mood with just a few words.
One example I've always loved is his Dayspring Mishandled (from Limits and Renewals). There's so much going on with this story.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
School History, “Dane-Geld (A.D. 980-1016),” st. 3-4 (1911) [with C.R.L. Fletcher]
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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say: -- "Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you. We will therefore pay you cash to go away." And that is called paying the…
(5/7) ... attire population noire du Sud xénophobe sur ces territoires autochtones avec des enfants noirs et blancs pouvant fréquenter les mêmes écoles.(cf 1877 1889 1907) + Alabama : des ex-esclaves importés illégalement sur le Clotilda négrier tentent de revenir sans succès en Afrique (cf 1860) -> fondent communauté Africatown au nord du fleuve Mobile.
- Empire UK : colonie Inde -> naissance Rudyard #Kipling à Bombay.
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1865 wurde Rudyard #Kipling in #Bombay geboren. Er starb am 18.01.1936 in #London. 1907 erhielt er als erster englischsprachiger #Schriftsteller den #Literaturnobelpreis. Sei bekanntestes Werk ist das #Dschungelbuch.
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