Chapter 15
I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?' His soul, exhausted after his Himalayan ordeal, finally reintegrates: 'with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without.Read in Books4Free →
'Who is Kim?'—Crisis of Identity
From Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Kim's recurring metaphysical question—'Who is Kim?'—is the novel's central existential theme, recurring at moments of exhaustion and breakdown between his identities as sahib and native.
Chapter 11
Earlier formulation: 'What am I? Mussalman, Hindu, Jain, or Buddhist? That is a hard nut.'
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