Word: conrades
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Roddy MacDowall, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Homolka and Boris Karloff in a dramatization of Joseph Conrad's eerie master piece, Heart of Darkness...
...never read for pleasure," said captious, craft-minded Novelist John P. (Women and Thomas Harrow) Marquond to the New York Herald Tribune. "I don't have time. If spare moments do occur, I read Dumas, Tolstoy and Trollope, in that order, with occasionally a little Conrad. Sometimes I read Fielding, but that's only when I'm alone in the evening and have three drinks inside me. Richardson? He requires more drinks...
...Conrad has a pronounced socio-political ideology. It is never absent from the novels, but it is stronger in these three than elsewhere. Guerard, despite "my sympathy with the political vision" of Nostromo seems less interested in ideology than in the other components of novels. This is a great pity much of Conrad's ideology, for that brand of illiberalism is not going to find many commentators sympathetic enough to do it justice...
...think Guerard justifies the whole of his interpretation here. For one thing, he is inconsistent; he speaks at one point of the "dreaming of Lord Jim"--when someone else might say "composing" and then goes on to detail the elaborate pains Conrad took over each phrase to insure total control of the material and of the reader. Guerard's combination of reverie and manipulation is difficult to accept; to be sure, Marlowe sometimes mentions--and conveys--the dreamlike quality of his tales, but we must attribute the dream to him, not to Conrad, for Guerard himself has taught...
...second to last section of Conrad the Novelist deals with the three political novels: Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. It is not, I think, an impressive as the first two hundred pages; there are excellent passages, particularly in the Nostromo chapter, but Guerard does not always reach the high level he maintains in treating the other novels...