6/22/2023 0 Comments Kimball kipling![]() ![]() ![]() As we have noted, this quest is central to the adolescent experience in Kipling’s fiction. More than any of Kipling’s other boys’ books - perhaps more than anything else in Kipling’s entire oeuvre - Kim concerns itself with the search for an identity. Trilling observes that “ Kim, like The Jungle Books, is full of wonderful fathers”, 1 yet, paradoxically, too many fathers are not enough. It was to this fruitful obsession he returned in Kim. Missing from Stalky was Kipling’s most dynamic, life-giving theme: the divided self. In the powerful, though erratic, arc of Kipling’s climb to greatness during the 1890s, Stalky has the look of a jeu d’esprit, an escape from the highly personal, even confessional writing he was engaged in - this despite the serious pretensions of the schoolboy stories that we have explored. ![]()
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