Литературный вечер про Киплинга

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Джозеф Редьярд Киплинг

Childhood / детство

• Was born in India in Bombay in 1865. He was named after the lake Rudyard where his parents met..

Childhood / детство

• From the Hindi servants learned Indian tales and songs.
• Hindi was his first language.
• Нe was very happy.

Childhood / детство

• He was sent to England.
• He educated at an English military college in Devon.
• He was brilliant in History and Literature, wasn’t good at Maths.

EARLY ADULT LIFE

• In 1882 he returned to India.
• He worked as a journalist for Anglo-Indian newspaper.
• At the age of 21 he published his first book of poems.

His parents (Alice Kipling (MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling) supported him in his writing carrer.

Есть у меня шестерка слуг,

I keep six honest serving-men

Проворных, удалых.

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

И все, что вижу я вокруг, —

Все знаю я от них.

And How and Where and Who.

Они по знаку моему

Являются в нужде.

I send them over land and sea,

Зовут их: Как и Почему,

I send them east and west;

Кто, Что, Когда и Где.

But after they have worked for me,

Я по морям и по лесам

I give them all a rest.

Гоняю верных слуг.

I let them rest from nine till five,

Потом работаю я сам,

For I am busy then,

А им даю досуг.

As well as breakfast, lunch, and tea,

Даю им отдых от забот —

Пускай не устают.

For they are hungry men.

Они прожорливый народ —

Пускай едят и пьют.

But different folk have different views.

I know a person small-

She keeps ten million serving-men,

Who get no rest at all!

She sends them abroad on her own affairs,

From the second she opens her eyes-

One million Hows, two million Wheres,

And seven million Whys!

Но у меня есть милый друг,

Особа юных лет.

Ей служат сотни тысяч слуг, И всем покоя нет!

Она гоняет, как собак,

В ненастье, дождь и тьму

Пять тысяч Где, семь тысяч Как,

Сто тысяч Почему!

career

• At the age of 24 he had published 6 books.

• In 1890s he travelled a lot. He was in China, Japan, America.

His family

Kipling has 3 children: one boy John and two girls Josephine and Elsy.

I've never sailed the Amazon,

На далекой Амазонке

Не бывал я никогда.

Только "Дон" и "Магдалина" -

Быстроходные суда -

Только "Дон" и "Магдалина"

Ходят по морю туда.

Из Ливерпульской гавани

Всегда по четвергам

Суда уходят в плаванье

К далеким берегам.

Плывут они в Бразилию,

Бразилию, Бразилию.

И я хочу в Бразилию -

К далеким берегам!

I've never sailed the Amazon,

I've never reached Brazil;

But the Don and Magdelana,

They can go there when they will!

Yes, weekly from Southampton,

Great steamers, white and gold,

Go rolling down to Rio

Roll down--roll down to Rio!

And I'd like to roll to Rio

Some day before I'm old!

I've never sailed the Amazon,

During this period he wrote: “The jungle Book”, ”Captain Courageous”. “Just so stories for little children”.

A quiz

• This animal was very big and lived in the sea. It ate a lot of fish, but it was always hungry.
• This animal lived in hot countries. It was big and strong. But it was very lazy. It didn’t like to work and help people.
• This wild animal hunted zebras, giraffes and antelopes. But one day it had nothing to eat because it was white and it wanted black spots (пятна).
• It lived in Australia. It could jump very high and far.
• It was small but very sly (хитрый). It could catch mice. It didn’t like dogs but liked to walk alone.

The jungle book

• How old was Mowgli when he got into the jungle?
• Why was he left alone in the jungle?
• With whom did he live in the jungle?
• Who stood up for Mowgli to left him in the pack (стая)?
• Who was the Mowgli’s enemy (враг)?

The jungle book

• What did Bagira call the red flower?
• Who kidnapped (похитил) Mowgli?
• For what did the wolves dislike Mowgli?
• How old was Mowgli when he returned to the people?

The prize

• In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in literature. He was only 42 years old.

Tragedy

• During the World War I his son John died.

• In 2007 the film “My boy Jack” was made. It is very biographical film.

If

if

the end

• Rudyard met king George V and they became good fellows.

He died in 1936 at the age of 70. He was buried in London, in Westminster Abbey at poets Corner.