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Rank his works.

>> No.19133968

>>19133958
His works are rank enough.

>> No.19133972

>>19133958
Literally who

>> No.19133975

>>19133958
1-Blacked Jia Lissa
2-Gang Banged Jenna Haze
3-Riley Reid fucks Rappers

>> No.19133988

>>19133958
The tenebrous pericardium > the hidden operative > Liege Jimbo

>> No.19134057

Lord Jim > Heart of Darkness > The N— of the Narcissus > Nostromo

>> No.19134099

>>19133958
9/10 in general

>>19134057
>censoring "Nigger"

Kys faggot

Its called NIGGER of the Narcissus, and any libshit who tries to censor away classic works need s to be keelhauled until dead

>> No.19134162

>>19133958
What I always admired about Conrad is that English was a foreign language to him, with Polish being his native tongue and French the first language he learned and mastered. He started to learn English and acquired fluency in it during his twenties. Quite amazing, considering his literary oeuvre!

>> No.19134214

>>19133958
Nostromo > Lord Jim > Heart of Darkness > The Nigger of Narcissus
All are at leat good, still haven't read Secret Agent.

>> No.19134303

>>19134057
look at this fag censoring NIGGER

>> No.19134948

>>19134214
what is Nostromo about? the conrad resurgence on lit is making me want to read it. Didnt Faulkner say he wished he had wrote it?

>> No.19135414

The Secret Agent was his best

>> No.19135473

>>19134057
>The N—
OH NO NO NO

>> No.19136260

>>19134057
It's the NIGGER of the Narcissus

>> No.19137597

>>19135414
Close
Victory, Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, Nostromo, Lord Jim (but like Monte Cristo LJ's really a book for adolescents)

>> No.19137603

>>19134057
excellent bait

>> No.19137622

>>19134948
It's Conrad's longest but also most colorful, potboily book: takes place in vegatatively lush Central American ports which makes it an outlier among his books so far as the setting is concerned.

>> No.19137675

>>19137622
are there any sexy Columbian bitches in it?

>> No.19137718

1. Under Western Eyes
2. Arrow of Gold
3. Secret Agent
4. Lord Jim
5. Chance
6. Nostromo
7. Victory
8. Shadow Line
9. Heart of Darkess
10. Almayer's Folly
11. Outcasts of the Isles
12. Typhoon
13. Nigger of Narcissus

Haven't Read: Rescue, Rover

>> No.19137722

>>19137675
A handful, but they're 'Costaguanan'

>> No.19137730

>>19137597
Did you skip Arrow of Gold or find it bad?

>> No.19137736

>>19137730
Haven't read it, nor Folly. Forgot about Chance: good book. It's been 5 years.

>> No.19137738

>>19137722
ight im sold.

>> No.19137769

>>19137730
What did you think of End of the Tether and Secret Sharer?

>> No.19137778

>>19137769
Haven't read any of his short stories or two memoirs. Probably good though, Conrad is never bad desu.

>> No.19137802

>>19137778
True. One complaint is that I wanted Nostromo to be better than it was, so a little disappointed there, but not at all sorry that I read it.

>> No.19137806

>>19137778
Both the longish shorts are very good btw, just not long enough to list

>> No.19137817

>>19137802
You have to realize Conrad's books become infinitely better in your mind after you read him. He is a very subtle writer who plants ideas to blossom.

>> No.19137841

>>19137817
That's any great writer; I think one thing alot of the philosophy chads here don't seem to get is that it's possible to love an otherwise 'refuted' philosopher because of the way he operates on one's mind, how the seeds he plants blossom in one's own thinking, etc. That it's possible to love a philosopher for literary reasons. Great point btw

>> No.19137878

>>19137841
Yes that's absolutely why I love Plato, it's the process of uncovering truth and the pursuit, same with Hobbes. They at least get you to think; parroting someone is just useless. But seriously, who addresses guilt and existenialism in prose better than Conrad (Maybe Melville, but even then I'd rank a lot of Conrad books over Moby Dick (even though I love it) and can only truly say Confidence Man and Pierre are comparable with the peak of Conrad.) He is a master, as is Melville. Nothing beats it.

>> No.19137905

>>19137817
>>19137841
Interesting.

>> No.19138013

>>19137878
In one respect I think this is why LJ's a book for youngsters: the theme of overcoming cowardice so dominates everything else (except perhaps the beautiful writing) that it's relatively easy to follow and to get something (important) out of when just setting out as a 'serious' reader, not that it isn't without subtleties, or that it doesn't repay re-reading as an adult, because it does. But then take a book like the one that's now becoming a meme, Narcissus: the allegorical subtleties are so immense that there's absolutely no getting to the bottom of it-- and that's your #13! Does anyone actually *want* to discuss this book? My guess is No. I just paused to read the Wikipedia article and even there there's little indication as to how rich this 'adult' novella really is.