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What is /lit/'s opinion on Conrad?

>> No.10069093

>>10069086
My favorite writer desu. Lord Jim is 10/10

>> No.10069101

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.

>> No.10069103

he racist lol

>> No.10069110

>>10069086
He's High tier stuff, not quite God tier but great writer worth reading

>> No.10069111
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>>10069101
I wanna bite so bad.

>> No.10069115

>>10069103
Good, I only read race-aware writers

>> No.10069117

>>10069110
Any god tier recommendations?

>> No.10069118

>>10069101
I sincerely wish bad things happen to you.

>> No.10069125

>>10069101
Thanks for your opinion, Vladimir

>> No.10069128

>>10069117
Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace

>> No.10069130

>>10069101
Top kek.

>> No.10069134

>>10069101
Copying this for future use

>> No.10069149

>>10069101
Is this pasta?

>> No.10069153

>>10069149
It is now

>> No.10069158

Heart of Darkness is one of my few 5/5s

>> No.10069162

>>10069128
memes much?

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>>10069149

>> No.10069169

rather unpolished

>> No.10069178

>>10069162
Its memes all the way down

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>>10069117

>> No.10069198

>>10069168
>dont have to worry about prose because you know it will always be mediocre
>grind storytelling and become god mode

i see no problems

>> No.10069199

>>10069153
Dog bless :D

>> No.10069206

>>10069181
His name is god tier holy shit

>> No.10069208

>>10069149
It's a glib facsimile.

>> No.10069222

>>10069168
please no, corn father

>> No.10069301

>>10069169

underrated

>> No.10069319

>>10069111
>>10069118
>>10069134
>>10069149
>not recognizing Nabokov's critique

this place is a joke

>> No.10069322

>>10069319
>Nabokov

Who?

>> No.10069331

>>10069322
A formidable mediocrity. Fakes realism with easy platitudes and contrite coincidences.

>> No.10069336

>>10069319
i recognized it, i just consider it to be an opinion on par with your average 4chan posters critic of [insert good thing here].

russians are trash

>> No.10069353
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10069353

He did a lot for English prose, but he is overshadowed by Joyce. Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are great. Not sure if I'll read another book of his, but you never know.

>>10069101
>all these newfags don't recognize the nabokov meme

>> No.10069400

>Carroll, Lewis. Have always been fond of him. One would like to have filmed his picnics. The greatest children's story writer of all time.

So he was Humbert after all.

>> No.10069517

Heart of Darkness was my first 'serious' book, and at first its difficulty made me hate it.

And yet, in the months that followed, I found my mind constantly wandering back to it, thinking about it, and I concluded that it must have been good, the struggle just dampened it.

It was much easier on a second read and I credit it as the reason I my tastes switched from Stephen King and modern fantasy to classics and more literary works.

>> No.10069559

>>10069086
Someone post the Dostoevsky quote

>> No.10069660

>>10069353
he's overshadow by master Joyce because he was immigrant and was s*ged for grammar errors

>> No.10069735

>>10069086
I read a bunch of his sea stories and enjoyed them, particularly The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Shadow Line, The Secret Sharer, Typhoon, Youth, and Victory. I had to read Heart of Darkness back in high school and was underwhelmed at the time.
The Secret Agent was kind of juvenile.

>> No.10070114

My faves are his early books set in Malaysia, Almayers Folly and Outcast of the Islands. Very vivid depictions of place and climate and the absurdity of Europeans attempting to control and rule so far from home
Either would have made a great Herzog/Kinski movie

>> No.10071071

Top tier stuff, a true master of ambiguity. 10/10.

>> No.10071123

>>10071071
Ambiguity?

His prose may be dense and mildy verbose, but once i became accustomed to his style it was anything BUT vague.

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>> No.10071150

>>10071141
But how about the bonus situation?

>> No.10072161

>>10071141
Sulaco is Conrad's too

>> No.10072191

I tried real hard to get into Nostromo. There were parts of it that gleamed out at me like sea glass, but it was missing something. Like an underspiced dish Conrad's style failed to bring out the interestingness of the medium he was working with. Even though I was totally sold on this fictional South American country and its crazy 18th century exploits, Conrad didn't seem excited about it himself.

>> No.10073424

>>10069086
This man, in my country he is everything.

>> No.10073550

>>10069319
its embarassing

>> No.10075062

>>10069086
So much greatness in every paragraph.

>> No.10075072

>>10069086
I habitually annoy my fiance with lord jim, heart of darkness, and chance quotes.

Chance quotes if I'm really trying to tease her. If you read it you know what i mean.

>> No.10075580

>>10069101
Unironically this. His prose is a shitty ctrv of the standard styles of the time. His contemporaries were far above him.