The Phenomenon of Game in R. Kipling's Novel «Kim»

This work aims to explore R. Kipling's novel «Kim», which was written in the heyday of the British Raj and which poses before us, in particular, the problem of the given cultural and socio-political realities reflecting through the phenomenon of game in the novel. On our way to solving the problem in this work, special attention is paid to the analysis of «Kim’s» historical and biographical background. Thus, through game as a semantic horizon, we strive to explain the meaning of such phenomena emerging in the novel as the experience of colonialism and empire (of the coloniser and the colonised), search for identity, transformation and hybridity, mimicry and adaptability, blurring of borders. The combination of game theories, united by a common interest in game as one of the fundamental principles of culture, and postcolonial theories constitutes the methodological basis of this work and provides an unconventional view of the problem raised.