![]() ![]() It covers much of the same ground, in a sort of roundabout way, that he would revisit in his more widely read "Heart of Darkness." At the center is Jim himself, a curiously hollow character whose likable exterior conceals an eerie emptiness and makes him particularly unsuited for life in the East. ![]() It's dense and weighty and immaculately written - each one of its chapters seems so perfectly self-contained might as well be a short story in itself. His stuff can be dense and slow I suspect that some authors could reel off three novels and two short stories in the space it takes Conrad to get things exactly right in one. At the same time, I'm glad that there are plenty of authors who don't write like him. Conrad just might be the platonic ideal of an English-language prose stylist, and he's so good that he can be scary. Every one of his stentences is so erudite, so perfectly formed, and so detailed that it's hard to even imagine how he - or anyone else - might improve on it. Reading Joseph Conrad sometimes feels downright intimidating. ![]()
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