Transcript Joseph Conrad Typhoon

Joseph Conrad
Typhoon
Title: Typhoon
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 144
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0312873034
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 8.9 MB
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Description
Many chronicles have been written about life at sea, but few, if any, can compare with Joseph
Conrad's masterpiece. It is the story of one unremarkable steamship captain, pitted against a
storm of incredible fury. Captain Macwhirr has a reputation as a solid, steadfast man, who
"having just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day, and no more"
cannot fully believe any storm would be a match for his powerful ship. So, when the barometer
and other clues begin to hint at trouble ahead, he is only moderately concerned and unwilling to
change course and lose precious time-a decision that may prove more costly than he could ever
have imagined.
Insightful reviews
Nickname: E la nave rollava... questa frase ripetuta all'infinito all'interno del romanzo mi ha
proprio rotto le scatole.
Ho letto un estratto su un libro di testo alle medie e mi ha catturato.
Una nave in mezzo alla tempesta, l'intrepido comandante al timone che tenta il tutto e per tutto
con il suo mozzo/assistente.
Ma tutto ciò dura 2 pagine forse, poi solo e soltanto "e la nave rollava" "e i cinesi nella stiva
stanno morendo sballottati qua e là".
Quando alla fine la nave giunge al porto si tira finalmente un sospiro di sollievo, no non per la
storia a lieto fine ma perché il libro è finito.
Mi spiace per Conrad ma questo libro è tediosissimo.
Guido: Impressionante e potente; come sempre Conrad riesce a trasformare l'avventura in uno
strumento d'osservazione dell'animo umano. Anticipare il contenuto di queste pagine sarebbe
un crimine, è sufficiente dire che chiunque ami la letteratura di mare troverà questo racconto
prezioso, per la vicenda narrata e per la quantità di significati allegorici che vi si possono
trovare.
Non dimenticherò il capitano MacWhirr, alla fine del racconto ho sentito per lui un enorme
affetto. La sua decisione, quello che agli altri appare come un improvviso mutamento, è anche
l'espressione della sua solitudine, un esempio di quanto rara e incompresa sia sempre stata la
gentilezza in una moltitudine governata dal sospetto e dall'indifferenza. Oltre a tutto ciò ho
provato una sensazione ancora più bella: tornare ai tempi delle mie prime letture di bambino,
quando Verne, Stevenson e Salgari mi tenevano sveglio fino a tardi...
Dillon Strange: I love Joey Conrad! But then I was always a sucker for an action packed nautical
yarn. His books in this niche are second only behind the great Patrick O'Brian in my opinion.
This one tells the story of a merchant ship carrying a load of "coolies", migrant Chinese workers,
that runs into a typhoon. We experience it all through the eyes of the stolid, non-plussed
Captain MacWhirr and his skittish but duty bound first mate, Jukes. Conrad can be a tad dense
at times, but his descriptions of the terrifying power of the storm and it's effect on the crew are
amazing.
Judy: Oh, my! one of many greatest, if no longer "the" greatest, ever written. Conrad should
have skilled anything related or he couldn't have written it with such descriptions! I do like sea
tales and that i enjoyed this one. (It's brief yet each word, as ordinary with Conrad, packed a
punch!)
Patrick Sherriff: a strong novella, simply lengthy sufficient to teach Conrad's diversity and lift a
few disquieting questions, yet brief sufficient to prevent padding. I loved this booklet regardless
of my least favorite notice that plants up in nineteenth Century novels showing within the
commencing line - physiognomy. i am getting that folks' faces are symbolic and inordinately
fascinating to our ancestors, yet please. each bloody nineteenth Century novel has to head on
at size concerning the menacingness or now not of a man's brow? sufficient already. Anyway.
After racing via this i assumed possibly it can be learn as a critique of the stupidity of the officer
category that ended in the tragedy of the nice War, yet I realize it used to be released correct on
the flip of the century, so it used to be prior to its time or I received the incorrect finish of the
stick. both way, it is the tale of an unimaginative captain who hazards his crew's lifestyles
steerage his send during the eye of a hurricane for the sake of maintaining a timetable. yet by
means of the tip of the book, i used to be left considering if the captain wasn't wiser than we
have been resulted in believe. guy vs Nature and all that. The descriptions of the hurricane and
the advance of the characters have been first rate.
Darwin8u: "Don't you be positioned out via anything. hold her dealing with it. they might say
what they like, however the heaviest seas run with the wind. dealing with it -- constantly dealing
with it -- that is the solution to get through. you're a younger sailor. Face it. that is adequate for
any man. hold a funky head."Conrad can take an easy concept and progressively pull out of it
the deep complexities of man. hurricane is a novella that actually chefs an excellent tale out of a
hurricane + a ship + Captain MacWhirr and his crew. environment was once fantastic.
Characters have been perfect. tale was once tight. Narrative used to be apparently rigged with
letters from MacWhirr to his wife, Juke to his good friend and Rout to his wife. those letters
framed the narrative with a mirrored examine the gap among these at sea and people who stay
secure on land. I in basic terms gave it 4 stars simply because i have learn higher novels
through Conrad (Victory, Nostromo, center of Darkness, Lord Jim), now not simply because i
have learn many larger writers.
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