/lit/ - Literature

>It was wonderful — I loved him & I think he liked me. He talked a great deal about his work & life & aims, & about other writers.... I got him on to Henry James... Then we went for a little walk, & somehow grew very intimate. I plucked up courage to tell him what I find in his work – the boring down into things to get to the very bottom below the apparent facts. He seemed to feel I had understood him; then I stopped & we just looked into each other's eyes for some time, & then he said he had grown to wish he could live on the surface and write differently, that he had grown frightened. His eyes at the moment expressed the inward pain & terror that one feels him always fighting.... Then he talked a lot about Poland, & showed me an album of family photographs of the [18]60's – spoke about how dream-like all that seems, & how he sometimes feels he ought not to have had any children, because they have no roots or traditions or relations.[1]:448

>You will never go for a walk and fall in love with Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent and Joseph Conrad general.

>Reading thread
>Filled with people who actually understand anit-semetism
>Good discussion
>No real arguing
>Exactly what I hope /lit/ would be like but rarely is.

This was a very good thread until >>3917585 came, but it still renewed my faith in /lit/.

A masterpiece, but his Based Conman's best work That prize goes to Nostromo

Heart of Darkness > Apocalypse Now > Spec Ops: The Line

>Crtl f
>No "Apocalypse Now"

Good.

>>3804036
It's the plot to Nostromo by Joseph Mother Fucking Conrad you god damn commoner.

Joseph Conrad didn't speak English fluently until his twenties. Have fun reading.

Where does Joseph Conrad go?

Joseph Motherfucking Conrad

So, /lit/, I feel like reading something else by this sly looking gentleman after reading Heart of Darkness a while back. As always, though, I feel lost when going at authors with such an extensive library of works.

What do you suggest I read next?

I'm really enjoying Heart of Darkness!

>... No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence,—that which makes its truth, its meaning—its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream—alone.

>I remembered the old doctor,—'It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot.' I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

Anyone here familiar with Conrad? What other works would you recommend? Similar authors, or similar works from other authors?

I'm really interested to read Achebe, and Achebe's rebuke of Conrad now..

>>2176673
>>2176673
Oh yea, suicide ones are always good.
Here's one: In 1897, before he had written anything of value, Conrad tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest, but failed and told some lie about how he had gotten into a duel.

ITT:
Authors who should have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, but didn't get shit...

who's yer pick?

>pic related to the utmost fucking extent

>>1528249
because without ethics, there is no common ground for a society to argue about morals, which is important for social harmony, I would say.

pic related: Author of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Just finished reading The Secret Agent, and it was fucking awesome.

Any other Conrad suggestions?

Fucking niggers, how do they work?

why so arbitrary?

more like Joseph YAWNrad, amirite?