Stichwort
Assemble
11 Presseschau-Absätze
Magazinrundschau 01.06.2002 […] "Much of Kipling's work, inarguably, was hasty and poorly written", räumt Hitchens ein, doch täte man Kipling unrecht, ihn nur als Maulhelden und Chauvinisten zu betrachten. "If one were to assemble a balance sheet of Kipling's own explicit contradictions, it would necessarily include ... his staunch Anglo nationalism, and his feeling that England itself was petty and parochial; his dislike of nonwhite peoples, and his belief that they were more honest and courageous; his respect for the working class, and his detestation of the labor movement; his exaltation of the empire, and his conviction that its works were vain and transient."
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