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>Dear Jeffrey:
>The 350 words the Washington Post promised me for the Kipling
>conference finally made it into print. It came with a pleasant photo
>of Kipling. Alas, to make room for the illustration, they took out
>a nice quote by you.
>I have very lively and happy memories of the conferece. It was a
>unique and lovely event.
>Best wishes,
>Kim Klein
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53704-2001Oct25.html
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>Book Report: The Great Game Revisited
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>As Western powers battle in Afghanistan, the media frequently refer
>to the struggle as just the latest round in what 19th-century
>Victorians referred to as "the Great Game." The victors gain the
>loyalty of that mountainous nodal point in central Asia.
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>This month marks the centenary of the novel that first popularized
>this concept of the Great Game, Rudyard Kipling's<em> Kim</em>. The
>book was published on Oct. 1, 1901 in the United States and 17 days
>later, in England. It has remained in print ever since.
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>The central character is 13-year-old Kim, Irish by parentage but
>orphaned and abandoned in the India of the British raj. Kim, living
>by his wits, is able to pass as a Hindu, a Tibetan lama's disciple,
>or an apprentice Afghan horse trader. He is eventually inducted into
>the British Indian secret service.
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>To celebrate the centenary, Kipling enthusiasts gathered last month
>at England's Cambridge University, flying in from Japan, Turkey,
>Argentina, Denmark, France and the United States as well as six
>countries of the former British Empire. They presented papers on a
>wide range of subjects, reflecting the variety of Kipling's own
>work. Born in India in 1865, he published novels, short stories,
>poems, journalism and children's books, winning the Nobel Prize for
>literature in 1907. He died in 1936.
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>Several papers, and a public lecture by English poet Craig Raine,
>tackled the controversial side of Kipling and his depictions of
>women, Irishmen, Jews, Germans and Asians. Nevertheless, as some
>presenters showed, affection for Kipling has surfaced in some
>surprising places. It was noted that Bertold Brecht admired Kipling
>and even wrote a freewheeling translation of the poem "If." Andre
>Malraux, too, was a fan. Willa Cather consciously imitated him early
>in her career, and Hollywood, especially Walt Disney, loved him.
>Above all, Kipling emerged in lengthy references and allusions found
>in the post-colonial writings of the Indian diaspora, including
>those of Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Michael Ondaatje, and
>Arundhati Roy.
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><em>By Kim Klein, a librarian for The Washington Post.</em>
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--
Dr Jeffery D Lewins,
Praelector Magdalene College,
Cambridge CB3 0AG
(01223) 332100 facs 363637
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