Conrad's novels have been described as extended short stories, partly because many of them (including Lord Jim) started as such. They take the form of tales or yarns, within the context of a speech-act …

ABSTRACT Conrad’s Lord Jim is a story that depicts a man’s trajectory from bright prospect to utter destruction. On board as a chief mate to the Patna, an ill-fated pilgrim ship, Jim, the protagonist, …

Jim se sentait irrité contre le tumulte de la terre et du ciel qui l’avait pris au dépourvu, en trahissant sans loyauté son généreux désir d’occasions fugitives. Il était d’ailleurs plutôt satisfait de n’être pas …

Joseph Conrad uses sailor Marlow and Jim as his interpreters to express his own ambivalence and complicated emotions toward Empire. On one side, he criticizes the merciless and violent conduct of …

Jim’s central position of the protagonist and the seeker of heroic adventure in Joseph Conrad’s novel is complemented by Marlow, a confidante who assumes the key role of the perceiving ...

Abstract This article targets to converge in analyzing the novel Lord Jim and Said‟s Culture and Imperialism to illustrate the critical development of the term „contrapuntal reading‟ that ...

Conrad, though, is capable of using humor ironic effect. In Falk: A Reminiscence, for example, the protagonist's fession of participation in an act of cannibalism provides an humorous anticlimax to his …