Ο Τζόζεφ Ράντγιαρντ Κίπλινγκ (30 Δεκεμβρίου 1865 - 18 Ιανουαρίου 1936)
ήταν Βρετανός συγγραφέας και ποιητής. Είναι ιδιαίτερα γνωστός για το
Βιβλίο της ζούγκλας (1894), το μυθιστόρημα Κιμ (1901) και το ποίημα "Αν..." (1895).
Το 1907, του απονεμήθηκε το Νόμπελ Λογοτεχνίας. Ήταν ο πρώτος
αγγλόφωνος συγγραφέας που κέρδιζε το βραβείο αυτό και μέχρι σήμερα
αποτελεί το νεαρότερο κάτοχο Νόμπελ Λογοτεχνίας.
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"Seek not to question other than / The books I leave behind," counseled Kipling in "The Appeal," a two-line poem written shortly before his death that editor M. M. Kaye describes as "a plea to posterity to respect his private life." Such an appeal proves especially ironic having been made by a man who deliberately lived by far the greatest part of his life in the public eye.
Kipling's posthumously-published autobiography, titled Something of Myself (1937), "in fact tells us almost nothing and can be regarded as a smoke-screen, timed to go off after his death and designed to lead would-be biographers astray." The systematic destruction of his private papers (letters, diaries, and drafts of works), begun by Kipling while alive, was continued by his wife after his death, and completed by his daughter following Mrs. Kipling's own demise. Consequently, most of the evidence concerning Kipling's private life has been lost, while suspicion has been aroused of a secret that Kipling and his family hoped to suppress.
That secret, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith concluded in 1989, is that Kipling was in love with a charming, young, American literary agent, Wolcott Balestier, who died suddenly in 1891, and that a grief-stricken Kipling married the man's sister Caroline only six weeks later out of a sense of loyalty to his departed friend and/or guilt over his homosexual desire. (glbtq.com)
"Seek not to question other than / The books I leave behind," counseled Kipling in "The Appeal," a two-line poem written shortly before his death that editor M. M. Kaye describes as "a plea to posterity to respect his private life." Such an appeal proves especially ironic having been made by a man who deliberately lived by far the greatest part of his life in the public eye.
Kipling's posthumously-published autobiography, titled Something of Myself (1937), "in fact tells us almost nothing and can be regarded as a smoke-screen, timed to go off after his death and designed to lead would-be biographers astray." The systematic destruction of his private papers (letters, diaries, and drafts of works), begun by Kipling while alive, was continued by his wife after his death, and completed by his daughter following Mrs. Kipling's own demise. Consequently, most of the evidence concerning Kipling's private life has been lost, while suspicion has been aroused of a secret that Kipling and his family hoped to suppress.
That secret, biographer Martin Seymour-Smith concluded in 1989, is that Kipling was in love with a charming, young, American literary agent, Wolcott Balestier, who died suddenly in 1891, and that a grief-stricken Kipling married the man's sister Caroline only six weeks later out of a sense of loyalty to his departed friend and/or guilt over his homosexual desire. (glbtq.com)
La vida jamás dejará de sorprendernos.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφή¿La vida?
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήPues, sí, la vida...