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Conrad's Marlow : narrative and death in 'Youth', Heart of darkness, Lord Jim and Chance

By Joseph , Marlow , Charlie; Wake , Paul; Conrad

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
Year
2007
ISBN
0719074908, 978-0-7190-7490-5, 978-1-8477-9197-9, 1847791972
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1015 kB (1039555 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
145\158
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912). Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar? Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality in his constantly shifting position and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling

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