Segunda recopilación de los cuentos de las colinas, el primer libro de Kipling, uno de los libros favoritos de Borges...
Cuentos de apenas 6 páginas, con un dibujo certero de personajes, tramas en las que está excluido lo "plano", una mirada abierta al mundo mestizo de la India, donde el inglés se co

Thank God it ended finally!

You can only imagine how the book went overall if this was my feeling at the end. It literally lost me at about 70% when I started skimming through the stories so much and was just counting pages till the end.

The stories, characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny, even though they were written almost a 100 years ago. The language was very Victorian so I had a tough time occasionally when my understanding and interest hit roadblocks of heavy and cursive words of Victorian tim

I racconti del terrore di Kipling sono testi anomali. Abituati ai classici occidentali, con atmosfere scure e gelide, l'autore invece ci trasporta in un mondo di luce, sotto il sole cocente e imperante dell'India. Ma non è un sole che guarisce quello dipinto da Kipling, ma fonte di dolore, né siamo

Kipling az emberarcú imperializmus zászlóshajója. Nem vitás, hogy embernek tekinti az indiaiakat, és szigorúan meghatározza, milyen kötelességeik vannak az európaiaknak velük szemben: együttérzés, tapintat, segítségnyújtás. Nem szűnik meg ostorozni azokat a gyarmati hivatalnokokat, akik lenézően vis

Too bad that Kipling had to be a racist. May be that came with the times that he lived in. But all said and done, one can't argue about his calibre as a writer. He's simply in a class of his own. One almost feels that the author personally lived through every incident he wrote about. There is a firs

Not a proud time of occupation and maltreatment of an empirical abuse of a race of people ... but stories do arise of and with mutual respect of those on the ground and in the midsts of those days and activities in history. The language is rough and rude, but reflects the world that it was.
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