 ... the immense lethargy which threatens at every moment to descend. All this, I think, must be the result of that internal conflict. For while Marlow would like to track every motive, explore every shadow, his companion the sea captain is for ever at...  Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance - Pagina 177di Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 276 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 pagine
...major factors common to the seaman and novelist is the idea of fidelity. 'Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a very few simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity.'... | |
 | Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pagine
...multiple selves. His novels set the "man of words" against the type of the sea captain, who insists that "the world, the temporal world, rests on a very few simple ideas." She sums this up structurally: "The beauty of sur-face has always a fibre of morality within" (378).... | |
 | John Gerard Peters - 2008 - 275 pagine
...Bumpus iJd., Booksellers to His Majesty, 350, Oxford Street, London, W. "Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a very few simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills" [xxi]. Joseph Conrad in A Personal Record Conrad's... | |
 | 1916 - 630 pagine
...affecting a whole mass of lives — has come from reflection." Or, again: "Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a very few simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on Fidelity!" There... | |
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