6/4/2023 0 Comments Conrad author lord jim![]() ![]() As with many of Conrad’s fictions, this one opens with a moral dilemma for its protagonist: what would you do if a student friend of yours came to you having carried out a political assassination? Would you turn him over to the police, or cover for him? Razumov, Conrad’s student protagonist, decides to do the former – and this ‘betrayal’ throws him headlong into the world of Russian espionage. ![]() Recommended edition: An Outcast of the Islands (Oxford World’s Classics). The ‘outcast’ of the novel’s title is Peter Willems, a renegade ne’er-do-well whose decline takes place against the lush backdrop of Makassar in Indonesia (that part of the world would provide the setting of much of Conrad’s fiction). Eliot with a line for his poem ‘The Hollow Men’ than it is as a classic early Conrad novel, his second after Almayer’s Folly (1895). ![]() This novel is almost more famous for providing T. ![]()
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