He was a British writer and a poet, he was the first British Nobel Prize winner and the youngest to win the Prize, but the world literary world was prejudiced against him, and his writer fame had been stripped away, and even more defined him as a children's writer, he was Joseph Kipling. Today, we will understand Kipling from a pure literary point of view, to appreciate his words, to understand his life, I believe you will like his words.
Kipling's father was a sculptor and his mother was born into a family of priests, and he had three sisters, two of whom were also married to artists and the other to politicians. It can be said that Kipling was born in a family background that is relatively prominent, and the artistic atmosphere is strong. At the age of 6, he was sent to England to study, and at the age of 17 he returned to Mumbai to work as a photographer and editor at a newspaper. In Kipling's body, it embodies the characteristics of Eastern culture and Western culture, and integrates romantic colors and exoticisms into its literary works, which makes the British literary world have a refreshing effect.
Because of his profession as a journalist, Kipling traveled to the mainland, Japan and the United States, wrote many notes, and his prose quickly spread around the world, becoming the best essayist. Culturally, he leaned more towards Indian culture, and he developed a reverence for Indian culture. He observed and understood Indian culture, which made it perfectly integrated into the Indian language, customs and way of thinking, precisely because of his emotional preference for India, so that he could not be accepted by the British when he was in Britain. Ideologically, therefore, Kipling leaned more toward Western thought, incorporating imperial ideology into depicting the magical world of Indian culture.
Kipling's works are often criticized for looking at backward Indian society from the perspective of imperial colonialism, but from the side, he thinks from the perspective of saving the backward Indian people, which is also of practical significance, of course, how to look at this problem. Leaving aside the above factors, we simply read and dissect the oriental cultural characteristics of Kipling's work. From the words of Kipling's works, you can fully feel that he loves India, where he was born, and he is full of reverence for the deep culture here. He devotes great lengths to constructing a vast exotic space, depicting the darkness and beauty of Indian society in depth.
In his works, there are large dark colors depicting the life of Indians, the works are full of advanced and backward, civilized and barbaric, enlightened and mysterious words, he stands in the perspective of the British colonies, looking at the backward Indian people, he uses the civilized life of the West to measure the life of Indians, and his idea is to let the British save and enlighten the Indians. It is clear in his novels that the living environment in India is intolerable to him, poverty, hunger, high temperatures, plagues, etc., and he sympathizes with the Indian people and hopes that the place where he grew up can be changed, and how to change requires the help of the British.
There are depictions of darkness, and there are also beautiful narratives. After leaving India, Kipling began to miss this land incomparably, and there are many romantic, warm and happy descriptions in the novel. In the land of India, with a novel and wonderful world, a wonderful natural landscape, and a warmth between animals, he hopes for the integration between the British Indian people, no oppression, no resistance, and harmony. For this reason, a large part of the image of the Indian in his novel is beautiful, kind, determined, sincere, and he admires the Indian people and praises the Indian people.
It is worth mentioning that Kipling is a good storyteller, he is super good at using vocabulary skills, and he is an outstanding narrative master. He applied this talent to children's books, creating many children's books that are still popular today. Therefore, due to the position of the novel, the literary world does not have a high evaluation of Kipling, but it has a high status in the field of children's creation. Such an encounter, it can be said that Kipling was a writer who was snubbed by the world literary circles.
On January 18, 1936, Kipling died at the age of 71, today is his 86th anniversary, let's enjoy the ten aphorisms of the first British Nobel Prize winner in literature and the youngest award-winning writer in the history of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and experience the charm behind the words.