The Man Who Would be King, by Rudyard Kipling
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One of Kipling’s most Joseph Conrad-like stories is one of his earliest pieces, “The Man Who Would Be King,” which Henry James called an “extraordinary tale” and which many critics have suggested is a typical Kipling social parable about British imperialism in India. One critic, Walter Allen, calls it a “great and heroic story,” but he says that Kipling evades the metaphysical issues implicit in the story. Although “The Man Who Would Be King” does not contain the philosophic generalizations of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899, serial; 1902, book), and is perhaps not as subtle a piece of symbolist fiction, it is nonetheless a coherent piece of fabular fiction carefully constructed and thematically significant. The secret of the story is its tone; indeed, tone and style are everything in the work. The story focuses primarily on the crucial difference between a tale told by a narrator who merely reports a story and a narrator who has lived the story he tells. The first-person, primary narrator is a journalist whose job it is to report the doings of “real kings,” whereas Peachey Carnehan, the inner narrator, has as his task the reporting of the events of a “pretend king.” The primary narrator (Kipling) tells the story of Peachey and Daniel Davrot, which, although it is fiction, is presented as if it were reality. The secondary narrator (Peachey) tells a story of Peachey and Davrot in which the two characters project themselves out of the “as-if” real world of the story into the purely projected and fictional world of their adventure. The tone of the tale reflects the journalist-narrator’s bemused attitude toward the pair of unlikely heroes and his incredulity about their “idiotic adventure.” “The beginning of everything,” he says, is his meeting with Peachey in a railway train, where he learns that the two are posing as correspondents for the newspaper for which the narrator is indeed a real correspondent. Role-playing is an important motif in the story, for indeed Peachey and Davrot are always playing roles; they are essentially vagabonds and loafers with no real identity of their own. After the narrator returns to his office and becomes “respectable,” Peachey and Davrot interrupt this respectability to tell him of their fantastic plan and to try to obtain from him a factual framework for the country where they hope to become kings. “We have come to you to know about this country, to read a book about it, and to be shown maps,” says Carnehan. “We want you to tell us that we are fools and to show us your books.” The mythic proportions of the two men—or rather their storybook proportions, for “mythic” is too serious a word here for the grotesque adventurers—are indicated by the narrator’s amused awareness that Davrot’s red beard seems to fill half the room and Carnehan’s huge shoulders the other half. The actual adventure begins with additional role-playing as Davrot pretends to be a mad priest (an ironic image that he indeed is...
The Man Who Would be King, by Rudyard Kipling- Amazon Sales Rank: #5982753 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .8" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 30 pages
Review .,."a great resource for teaching the older British writers." -- J.M. Soling
About the Author Nobel prize-winning writer Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but returned with his parents to England at the age of five. Influenced by experiences in both India and England, Kipling s stories celebrate British imperialism and the experience of the British soldier in India. Amongst Kipling s best-known works are The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, and the poems Mandalay and Gunga Din. Kipling was the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel prize for literature (1907) and was amongst the youngest to receive the award. Kipling died in 1936 and is interred in Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. a simple story By Bartok Kinski It's a simple story about a couple of drifters. People are inventing all this subtext that it's pro-imperialism or anti-imperialism and that's rubbish. It's a simple story about life. Some of the wording is confusing, since it's local English slang. Other than that, it isn't brilliant or anything, but rather fond and above average.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Classic Kipling By Oceanstatebuyer Loved so much the movie with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, just had to read the original story that it was adapted fromGreat! Loved it - give it a try.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Eh? What? Sorry, can't hear you over the violins! By Taylor Rand (The Audible Edition) The audio version is 25 minutes long. The MUSIC in the first half of the audio drowns out Kipling's story. It's as if the narrator was standing directly in front of an orchestra. Fortunately, the music's absent entirely in the second half. [ A relatively rare example of someone somewhere not giving a d%mn about the audio edition at all.]Kipling's story, however, what you can hear of it, is excellent. The two British adventurers in Afghanistan have a tale worth listening to.If you can hear it.
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