![]() ![]() ![]() They range from works of Ross Murfin, Frederick Karl, Adena Rosmarin, Johanna Smith, Hillis Miller, Brook Thomas, Edward Garnet, FR Leavies, the cast. I have pored through countless reviews on Conrad. To reduce him to a racist is cruel, absurd and unfair. Conrad had serious issues with the human persona. ![]() They were ‘hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams.” Its people (white Europeans) merely trespassing on his thoughts. Brussels is twice referred to as the sepulchral city. So the Sussex professor Cedric Watts is being civil when he says, “there remains a saddening perversity about it… blacks have enough enemies, it is saddening to see Achebe attack one of their friends.”Ĭonrad’s disgust for the imperialistic project knows no bounds. He could not have ventured yonder into the villages. He speaks of the forest in salutary terms. Without excessively belabouring it, to Conrad, the Congo River, the rainforest, the surroundings, these spellbind and overawe him. ![]()
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