/lit/ - Literature

alpha (jo conrad)

Hey guys! I just had a great idea for a novella! It's about a sailor who goes to work in imperialist Africa, where he encounters savage natives and has to track down a crazed genius who has taken over a local tribe.

I'm gonna call it: "Niggers Are Crazy Because They Live in the Jungle"

I and the makers of games share a parity of labour: our task which we are trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word or the ‘coded’ world, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, before all, to make you see. In a world clogged with empty journalistic prose and public wittering – this is my world and the world of the video-gamer – I maintain that only direct vision of the phenomena is capable of rousing us and awakening our sympathetic imagination to each other. Writers of books and of games must simulate that vision, and if their readers are not roused, must fail.

For the game-player, all my works (if I may be so bold) arouse excitement, and the descriptive technique which my critics have short-sightedly labelled as ‘literary impressionism’ is well suited to immersion in a foreign and exotic world, whether it is the South American state depicted in ‘Nostromo’, the infinite horizons of the far east in ‘Lord Jim’, or the monstrous gloom of London in ‘The Secret Agent’. The fancies of ‘pulp’ literature, of gun-fights, great voyages, foreign adventures, revolutions, hostile natives, terrorist bombs, and foreign spies, I take as the material for my project, but in my hands – I hope – they are moulded to make a thing of more complexity.

Hello /lit/

I have to write an essay, which, due a series of precarious circumstances, will be on Joseph Conrad and how he was a precursor for modernism.

Unfortunately, I have never read Conrad, so I don't know which of his works is best suited for such an essay.

So, which of Conrad's work best fits the essay title: "How does Conrad's ___________ foreshadow modernism?"

Thanks /lit/.

Wassup