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A sea captain's final journey 28 March 2015 I would say that this is just another story about a sea journey, but then again it was written by Joseph Conrad, and despite the three stories that I have read being about ships and journeys, I simply cannot describe it using the words 'just another'. The b Leggi tutto

SPOILERS ahead, but this is Joseph Conrad we're talking about. His style is the star. His work is essentially spoiler-proof. This novella (which, by today's standards, would be termed a short novel) shows Conrad's gift of sympathy. Captain Whalley, twenty-five years after losing his wife, prepares fo Leggi tutto

Novela marinera.

This short novel is difficult to read because it is about an old sea captain who is going blind.. As an elderly person myself, I am very conscious of how, when one is old and doesn't have money, one can suffer grievously. Captain Whalley of Joseph Conrad 's The End of the Tether had been a famous sea Leggi tutto

The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad demonstrates again his mastery of prose fiction forms. In this case Conrad has written a novella about a sea captain named Whalley who has had a financial disaster at the end of a distinguished career. All he wants is to leave his only daughter some money to he Leggi tutto

Una decina di anni prima dell’uscita di All’estremo limite Emile Zola pubblicava Il denaro , la storia di una colossale e catastrofica speculazione finanziaria ispirata a un evento realmente accaduto nel 1882; poco tempo dopo, nel 1914, Theodore Dreiser scrive Il Titano , ispirato alla figura del fina Leggi tutto

At his best, Conrad creates fully realised living characters who nonetheless embody moral archetypes without having to resort to the kind of didacticism that weighs down your Dostoevskys and other 19th century heavyweights. Here, the themes drives the narrative without ever for an instant subsuming