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Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:27:27 2022 No.20084180 [Reply] [Original]

Where should one start with Joseph Conrad?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:31:16 2022 No.20084190 >>20084180 The Secret Agent

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:33:32 2022 No.20084200 >>20084180 Heart of Darkness

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:34:52 2022 No.20084208 ??? it's gotta be Nostromo

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:40:55 2022 No.20084228 >>20084180 The Nigger of Narcissus

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:46:33 2022 No.20084238 The greeks

Anonymous Fri Mar 18 09:55:02 2022 No.20084262

A favorite between the ages of 8 and 14. Essentially a writer for very young people. Certainly inferior to Hemingway and Wells. Intolerable souvenir-shop style, romanticist clichés. Nothing I would care to have written myself. In mentality and emotion, hopelessly juvenile. Romantic in the large sense. Slightly bogus.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 10:06:59 2022 No.20084300 >>20084262 Filtered by an ESL of all authors

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 10:08:26 2022 No.20084305 Heart Of Darkness. If you want to be super autistic, I guess start with "Youth".

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 10:09:52 2022 No.20084306 >>20084262 >inferior to the war of the worlds I have no idea what Nabokov was talking about. That was the first real book I ever read at like 10 and I even thought it was cheesy

Anonymous Fri Mar 18 10:38:53 2022 No.20084396

>>20084180
The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes are both great. But really all his known novels are worth your while -- with IMO the exception of Lord Jim -- its when you get into his later work, with things like Victory that he becomes much more uneven. .

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 11:13:52 2022 No.20084520 Start with Conrad's short stories first.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 11:24:30 2022 No.20084564 >>20084262 I had no opinion on Conrad till I read your post. Now I conclude he must be great.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 11:29:02 2022 No.20084585 An author once told me to understand Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness, it's best to first read the Lingard Trilogy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 13:04:26 2022 No.20084941 >>20084262 >juvenile >romantic Has this retard never read Nostromo?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 13:20:39 2022 No.20085009 File: 64 KB, 996x682, 1583999637480.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20084262 kek the nabakov fag is becoming completely unhinged after being thoroughly BTFO, and now hes spamming every thread he can, not just dostoyevsky ones

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 18 13:53:44 2022 No.20085130 >>20084180 heart of darkness obviously

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