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Article: Classic Conrad goes to the movies
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 17, 1996
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Joseph Conrad has been "discovered" by film makers and is set
to follow Jane Austen as the next classic literary figure to be
translated to the screen.
The contrast between Austen's comedies of manners and Conrad's
stories of elemental passion is a stark one, but he remains one of
the best-selling classic authors. A recent survey showed him
selling 2,000 books a month, more than EM Forster and Anthony
Trollope and not far behind Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot.
Having all but exhausted Austen's oeuvre, British film producers
have proved quick to beat Hollywood in moving on to Conrad. His
screen history so far has been variable. The 1965 version of Lord
Jim with Peter O'Toole was a critical ...