January 1, 1954
Joseph Conrad III: The Political Novels (Continued)
In Under Western Eyes Conrad’s recommendation to charity is heeded on occasion, in The Secret Agent hardly at all. The secret agent is Mr. Verloc, employed by the Czarist embassy […]
October 1, 1953
Order and Anarchy: The Political Novels
By temper and discipline Joseph Conrad was hostile to the life of politics. He could not identify with a cause or idea, in the manner of Dostoevsky; he did not […]
October 1, 1953
Lingard’s Folly: The Lost Subject
Three novels by Joseph Conrad—Almayer’s Folly (1895), An Outcast of the Islands (1896) and The Rescue (1920)—comprise what might have been a purposeful trilogy, a tragedy in three acts, centered […]