Annotations de Raymond Las Vergnas. Nouvelle édition

La folie almayer

John Kemp, a young Englishman thirsting for adventure, journeys to the Caribbean where he meets an influential landowner and becomes entangled in the dangerous world of local pirates. Romance was the final of three fictional collaborations between authors Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford (writing under the name of F. M. Hueffer). Forged before either author achieved literary fame and fortune, the collaboration between Conrad and Ford resulted in extensive experimentation with style and narration as each author pushed the boundaries of the existing literary forms, and is credited with introducing the unreliable narrator, one of the most important developments in modernist literature. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Romance - A Novel

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.Contents: Lord JimMemoirs & Letters:A Personal Record; or Some ReminiscencesThe Mirror of the SeaNotes on Life & LettersBiography & Critical Essays:Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh WalpoleJoseph Conrad by John Albert MacyA Conrad Miscellany by John Albert MacyJoseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf

Lord Jim

«Stoppez ! mugit M. Rout.Personne - pas même le capitaine Mac Whirr, qui, seul sur le pont, avait aperçu une blanche ligne d'écume s'avancer, à une telle hauteur qu'il n'en pouvait croire ses yeux -, personne ne devait jamais savoir ce qu'avait été l'escarpement de cette lame, et l'effrayante profondeur du gouffre que l'ouragan avait creusé derrière la mouvante muraille d'eau.Elle accourait à la rencontre du navire ; et le Nan-Shan, alors, s'arrêtant comme pour se ceindre les reins, souleva son avant, puis sauta. Les flammes de toutes les lampes s'affaissèrent, assombrissant la chambre des machines ; l'une d'elles s'éteignit. Avec un fracas déchirant, un tumulte furieux et giratoire, des tonnes d'eau tombèrent sur le pont...»

Typhon

Racconto della crisi di un uomo e della fine della sua giovinezza, riassunta nellapotente immagine della linea d'ombra.

LA LINEA D'OMBRA

There is something in a treasure that fastens upon a man's mind. He will pray and blaspheme and persevere, and will curse the day he ever heard of it, and will let his last hour come upon him unawares, believing that he missed it only by a foot. He will see it every time he closes his eyes. He will never forget it till he is dead and even then...

Nostromo

Le caractère profondément romanesque de Lord Jim (sa deuxième partie surtout), qui met en scène amour et combats guerriers dans la jungle malaise, a su enflammer des générations de jeunes lecteurs. La complexité de ce long roman avait pourtant de quoi dérouter : monologues et dialogues continuellement imbriqués enchevêtrent un récit à tiroirs, un labyrinthe dont le fil conducteur ne se dénoue que brutalement, avec une fin tragique. Conrad patiemment tisse sa trame, emprisonne son héros comme dans une toile. Explore tous les angles d'une personnalité déchirée, torturée par ses contradictions. Tour à tour éclaire puis assombrit les facettes d'une histoire individuelle, avec ce mélange de distance et de chaleur qui lui est si personnel. Car non seulement Conrad domine son sujet, promenant sur les hommes et la mer un miroir implacable, mais il retient aussi son lecteur, l'hypnotise avec une virtuosité magique, pour mieux l'entraîner dans le grand rêve de Lord Jim.

Avant de devenir romancier, J. Conrad avait longtemps navigué en Extrême-Orient. En 1887, il avait plusieurs fois côtoyé un vapeur, le Nan-Shan, qui transportait des coolies. Cette expérience est à la source de ce roman dans lequel la mer est toujours présente dans sa splendeur, sa violence, sa cruauté même.

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one of the darkest places on earth." Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

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