Transcript Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Title: Lord Jim
Author: Joseph Conrad
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pages: 320
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0451510577
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Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--"as unflinching as a hero in a
book"--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a
merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed
horrifying proportions. But, then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to
establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test
once more. Lord Jim is a book about courage and cowardice, self-knowledge and personal
growth. It is one of the most profound and rewarding psychological novels in English. Set in the
context of social change and colonial expansion in late Victorian England, it embodies in Jim the
values and turmoil of a fading empire. This new edition uses the first English edition text and
includes a new introduction and notes by leading Conrad scholar Jacques Berthoud, glossaries,
and an appendix on Conrad's sources and reading.
Insightful reviews
John: Since graduating college, my reading comprehension has swirled reticently down the
drain only to be filtered at some refinement center and turned into slightly fluoridated water. This
has caused me to only read the words in books and sometimes forget what has happened, also
to question whether or not I used "reticently" in an acceptable manner.
Considering my lagging comprehension skills, I turned to Sparknotes to see how lost I was. On
occasion, I had no idea what was going on. I was aided greatly when I realized that Marlow was
the narrator for most of the story. For the most part though, I wasn't too far off with the
happenings of the chapters. I missed a lot of details, but usually got the big picture. I struggled
mostly with Conrad's timeline.
He seems to not bother with things like allowing the narrator to say, "Oh by the way, I am now
reflecting on the time that I met so and so and he told me this story about Jim. Forget that this
happened about two years before the stuff that I just told you. I'm going to jump around a lot and
not warn you at all. Also, I'm a big fan of pronouns and not so much in regard to proper names.
If you don't pay attention, you will wonder who the hell he, she, and they are quite often."
Conrad is one hell of a writer, but I can't understand him. His writing is like a pretty French girl. I
enjoy looking at her and even listening to her speak, but I only understand every fifth word. Zut!
Quelle heure y'til. Bete comme chou. Je m'appelle John. J'ai fin.
Nick Black: It's hard to decide which of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are superior; I give
them both five stars for being absolute bulwarks of English literature (written by a Pole!) shoring
up the flatulent Romanticist period (ugh, agrarianism! double ugh, pre-raphaelites!), and setting
the stage (along with Tolstoy, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Mallarmé, Ibsen and Schopenhauer) for the
great shift into Modernism. This was almost certainly the first great novel of the 20th century
(published from 1899-1900), and Conrad's shafting by the Nobel committee, along with
Tolstoy's, make up the first two great mistakes of that body. I'm well aware that I'm hardly the
most literate person around -- of about 180 semester hours to date, only 10 came from outside
math and the hard sciences (History of Composers 1450-1750, HoC 1750-Present, The
American Novel, and a James Joyce study) -- but still, I'm familiar with but a single Nobelist
from 1901-1919, and that the bucolic Kipling. What a bunch of crap.
Jennifer: I generally only bother to review books I enjoyed- especially since I'm not bothering
much to go back to review those I read quite some time ago. Lord Jim requires a review.
Why did I loathe this book so much... I was an English major in college. I have a master's
degree in English literature. I love books! This book is the only novel I have ever read that put
me to sleep. I could not get involved in the action. Conrad's verbose English diction and
excessively correct grammar infuriated me. His style frustrated me, his plot was essentially nonexistent, and I hated the characters. I had no empathy for them, I had no desire to read it, and
plogging through it killed brain cells.
I admit that I read this in high school- it is entirely possible that I would reject it less now that I
am more attuned with Conrad's purpose. I don't particularly care. If I have to hate one author,
one book, with a passion? This is it!
Nothing made me happier than the tragic ending.
Jason Koivu: Ponderous and hard to follow, yet nonetheless a gorgeous piece of work. I say
"difficult to follow" within the experience that Conrad didn't continually stability his motion and
exposition in Lord Jim. there have been huge sections of backstory or the minutia of character.
definitely personality is the cornerstone of this paintings within which a guy buries himself
deeper and deeper right into a potential backwoods fiefdom of types as a way to break out his
personal failings at the greater level of civilization, so it is not easy to fault Conrad in this point.
The "show, do not tell" writers' credo is likely to be pushed domestic extra this present day than
it used to be in his time, so my criticism is biased on the grounds that i am viewing the booklet
via a latest day reader's mentality. And even if i like philosophy a lot I thought of majoring in it in
collage, i myself wish to learn paintings that moves. Yes, do supply me internal struggles,
philosophizing, moralizing and the like, yet i might quite they have been slipped into the action,
like a capsule hidden within the dog's nutrition that allows you to get the animal to consume it.
This animal will down whatever if it is scrumptious enough.
David: I picked up a used booklet final week known as 'In seek of Conrad' and located it
fascinating. It received me desirous to learn Conrad, an writer I simply dipped right into a bit. His
books are set in Malaysia, Borneo, Singapore... so I acquired an atlas out whilst i used to be
examining this trip publication and have become thinking about the area. I’ve virtually
comprehensive it so i am beginning analyzing this, according to a real incident pointed out
within the book. the unique Jim was once moment mate on a steamer taking a thousand
pilgrims from Malaysia to Mecca i believe in approximately 1888 while it bumped into
undesirable weather, and Jim, the captain and a few workforce deserted send and left the
passengers to sink, and instructed the professionals in Aden that the send had sunk and they
might needed to abandon while the passengers attacked them, which wasn't true. Anyway, a
few days later the send and passengers docked in Aden too, the passengers having kept the
send themselves via baling out the water. So Jim and his friends have been publicly disgraced.
For a few cause i discovered the whole lot hilarious. yet besides Jim back to Singapore, married
and had sixteen youngsters and resumed his previous life, which was once an act of braveness
simply because for the remainder of his existence every body pointed him out in reference to his
cowardly action. So he is a type of tragic anti-hero, and that is what Conrad's novel is about.
This e-book looking for Conrad by means of Gavin younger is great, i believe like i have been
far and wide Malaysia and the South China Sea with it, following the maps. The writing is
beautifully scrumptious too. a colorful passage:At evening the chinese language warehouses,
better up, blazed with lanterns that mirrored red, orange and yellow gentle at the water like
dollops of liquid fire.At night, too, a loom of sunshine arced like a halo over the city Hall; and
lighting fixtures from the rows of forged iron lamps with globes of white porcelain like ostrich
eggs flickered during the rain timber at the Esplanade.On the opposite facet of the Esplanade
the lengthy facade of the inn de l'Europe used to be a mass of lighting fixtures just like the flank
of an outstanding ocean liner. From the eating room well-groomed globe-trotters brayed at one
another over their iced pudding, whereas at the terrace suits flared on the suggestions of
cheroots, revealing white shirt-fronts, and a useless cigar butt arced like a capturing celebrity
from the place Captain Marlowe sat completely engrossed, whereas Jim in matter-of-fact tones
gave him the bad information of the Jeddah affair.Once, whilst Jim gave way, bursting out less
than the strain of his guilt, 'It is - hell,' a number of travelers seemed up, startled, from their
pudding.
Marco Tamborrino: Le parole di Stein: "Romantico - Romantico!", sembrano risuonare da quei
lidi remoti, che non lo restituiranno mai più a un mondo indifferente alle sue debolezze e alle
sue virtù, né a quell'affetto ardente e tenace che rifiuta facili lacrime nello smarrimento di un
dolore immane e di una separazione eterna. Da quando los angeles purezza assoluta degli
ultimi tre anni della sua vita ha sopraffatto l'ignoranza, los angeles paura e los angeles rabbia
degli uomini, egli non mi appare più come l'ho visto l'ultima volta - un puntolino bianco che
attirava tutta los angeles debole luce rimasta nella crescente oscurità del mare e della costa ma più grande e più miserando nella solitudine della sua anima, che rimane anche consistent
with colei che più l'ha amato un mistero crudele e insolubile.Ancora adesso credo di non averlo
capito del tutto. Dev'essermi sfuggito qualcosa. Jim, Lord Jim, è tante cose, è un romantico, un
codardo, un valoroso; ma prima di tutto è un uomo, uno di noi. Uno come noi. Un uomo che
commette un errore, un grave errore (le cui analogie con Francesco Schettino sono
agghiaccianti). Un uomo che tenta in svariati modi di rimediare a questo errore, cercando allo
stesso pace di reinserirsi nella società. Ma niente da fare. L'unica è allontanarsi dal mondo
civilizzato, mettere una barriera tra sé e tutti gli altri uomini tra i quali è cresciuto. in step with
quasi tutto il libro, attraverso gli occhi di Marlow, abbiamo l. a. possibilità di farci un'idea di chi
sia veramente Jim."A dirle los angeles verità, Stein", dissi facendo uno sforzo che mi sorprese,
"sono venuto according to descriverle io un esemplare...""Farfalla?", chiese prontamente con un
tono di ironica incredulità."Niente di così perfetto", risposi, sentendomi di colpo riassalire da ogni
sorta di dubbi. "Un uomo!"."Ach so!" mormorò, e l'espressione sorridente che vedevo rivolta
verso di me si fece seria. Quindi, dopo avermi guardato according to un po', disse lentamente:
"Bene - sono un uomo anch'io".[...]"Capisco benissimo. Un romantico".[...]"C'è qualche
rimedio?".Alzò il suo lungo indice."Ce n'è uno solo" C'è un'unica cosa che può guarirci dalla
malattia di essere ciò che siamo". Il dito scese sulla scrivania con un colpo rapido. Il caso che
prima aveva fatto apparire così semplice divenne ancor più semplice - e assolutamente
disperato. Ci fu una pausa. "Sì", dissi, "più precisamente, l. a. questione non è come guarire,
ma come vivere".Il signor Joseph Conrad sta alla prosa come le stelle stanno al cielo. los
angeles scrittura è meravigliosa, profonda, intima e non annoia mai. Siamo noi che rimaniamo a
bocca aperta nello scoprire che l'errore di Jim è un errore anche nostro, sebbene non l'abbiamo
commesso."Lei mi considera un animale in step with essere rimasto lì fermo, ma che cosa
avrebbe fatto lei? Che cosa? Non può dirlo - non può dirlo nessuno."Jim si allontana quindi dal
mondo come lo intendiamo noi e approda a Patusan grazie all'appoggio di Marlow e Stein. Qui
si costruisce los angeles fama di un semidio, riuscirà a riscattarsi e anche a trovare l'amore, una
ragazza di nome Gemma. Le promette che non se ne andrà mai. Ma lei continuerà a dubitare di
lui fino alla fine, perché è uno di loro, uno dei bianchi, e loro se ne vanno sempre."Ah! ma io ti
terrò così", gridò... "Tu sei mio!".Gli singhiozzava sulla spalla. Su Patusan il cielo period rosso
sangue, immenso, come fluisse da una vena aperta. Un sole smisurato si annidava, colour
creimisi, tra le cime degli alberi, mentre los angeles foresta sottostante appariva nera e
ostile.Un uomo non potrà mai dimenticare il proprio passato, l'errore fatale che l'ha reso story da
non meritarsi di vivere nel mondo civilizzato. Jim si porterà dietro questo peso oscuro a tutti
tranne che a Marlow e a Gemma, e questo peso si scontrerà con le parole di Brown alla
effective del libro. È un animo tormentato quello del protagonista, un animo infelice e incapace
di mettersi in pace. Anche dopo il successo, anche dopo che tutti si fidano di lui, Jim fatica a
fidarsi di se stesso. Già una volta se n'è andato abbandonando tutti."Qualche volte gli uomini
agiscono in modo malvagio anche se non sono molto peggiori degli altri".Questo libro è
meraviglioso. Un capolavoro. E anche se capolavoro è una parola abusata, qui non possiamo
usarne altre. Onore a Conrad e alla sua prosa. E onore a Jim, un uomo come tutti noi.
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