Recently added articles from Conradiana:
Introduction: untimely Nostromo.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In this foretaste of eternal peace they floated vivid and light, like unearthly clear dreams of earthly things that may haunt the souls freed by death from the misty atmosphere of regrets and hopes [ ....] [Martin Decoud] had the strangest sensation of his soul having returned into his body ...
A century of Nostromo.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... It was in 1951 that Robert Penn Warren, a leading American writer of the time, in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition of Nostromo proclaimed this novel to be Joseph Conrad's "masterwork," the centerpiece of his output (viii-xi). And indeed, we can view Nostromo as at Conrad's ...
Martin Decoud in the afterlife: a dialogue with Latin American writers.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Thus, in postponing our potential, diverting our energies with a shameful increase in commerce, production and population and a dizzying increase in the public debt, enamored of lofty ideals and reluctant to practice them, adoring force as the supreme arbiter, our credit ruined, our legal ...
Anticipating a Scorsese or Zanuck Nostromo? The Lean-Hampton-Bolt screenplays.(Martin Scorsese and Darryl F. Zanuck)(David Lean, Robert Bolt, and Christopher Hampton)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... 2004 marked the centennial of Conrad's Nostromo, which the author called "the most anxiously meditated" of his recent novels and "an intense effort on what I suppose will always remain my largest canvas." (1) Conrad's story of Charles Gould's efforts in the late nineteenth century to ...
Sex, silver, and biblical analogues: thematic and intertextual resolutions at the end of Nostromo.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The conclusions to Conrad's major works are often curious or problematic. The ending to Nostromo is no exception. (1) In what follows, I wish to note how Conrad produces a compositional symmetry between the beginning and ending of this text and provides a closure (or at least a resonant ...