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...Poet Conrad Aiken gazed happily around him, decided that things were much better between the writer and the world than they used to be. The Pulitzer Prizewinner (1929) reported in the Saturday Review of Literature that "quite suddenly, it has become not only respectable to be a writer, but even honorable. . . . What we are witnessing is the beginning of a sort of love affair between the American public and its writers...
...PORTABLE CONRAD (760 pp.)-Selected & edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel-Viking...
...range of Joseph Conrad's material, as of his splendid glooms and lucidities in storytelling, could scarcely be better shown than in this collection of eleven long and short tales. They include, besides the familiar sea stories, tales of Poland, England and Asia. Among them are the classic Youth, Amy Foster, Typhoon, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness. The editor, one of the best of U.S. literary critics, has shown good judgment in not chopping Conrad's longer masterpieces into incomprehensible fragments just to get them inside an anthology. He has also made room...
...Conrad was a rarely skilled practitioner of that art, and is one of its heroes. A Pole by birth, a merchant seaman and ship's officer for 20 years, a student of letters whose first acquired language was French, Conrad became an English novelist only through creative sufferings of which it is painful to read; Editor Zabel calls his exercise of will power "appalling." Henry James found Conrad "absolutely alone as a votary of the way to do a thing that shall make it undergo most doing...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Topic: Joseph Conrad's Victory. Speakers: Eugene O'Neill Jr., Novelist Vincent McHugh, Rutgers Philosophy Professor Houston Peterson...