![]() ![]() In Nostromo, Conrad tells a tale of high politics, family struggle, and intense drama, set in a fictional South American country. In our visual age, that capacity for cinematic imagination should be appreciated more than ever. As he once wrote, his goal was, above all, to make you see. ![]() He can inhabit radically different characters, making them fully alive on the page (many of those characters being non-Europeans). He thinks deeply about the human condition, and probes human nature under often extreme circumstances. My advice is that everyone read him and then debate him-because he's really worth reading.Ĭonrad shares many of the characteristics of great writers. I think this beef is largely wrong, often drastically wrong, even though no writer is above criticism. Conrad has received a lot of grief as an imperialist, Eurocentric writer who treated the peoples of the rest of the world as a lot of savages. ![]()
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