 It had become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already he, sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice. There was not a word from anybody. The others might have been asleep, but I was awake. I listened,...  Youth: And Two Other Stories - Pagina 94di Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Andrew Gibson, R. G. Hampson, Robert Hampson - 1998 - 212 pagine
...awake. I listened. I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (HD, p. 83) If there is a "clue" to the "uneasiness' in question, of course, it is perhaps inseparable... | |
 | Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 pagine
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river" (58). The narrator listens for, and Marlow searches for, the word that will disclose meaning. The metaphoric... | |
 | Asako Nakai - 2000 - 224 pagine
...Marlow's plot: 'I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river' (HD 83). In his attempt to reconstruct Kurtz's falnila. Marlow depends on Kurtz's own plotting of it.... | |
 | Michael P. Farrell - 2003 - 354 pagine
...become so pitch dark that we listeners could hardly see one another. For a long time already [Marlow] , sitting apart, had been no more to us than a voice....without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (Conrad 1942, 38) In describing Marlow's style of storytelling, Conrad also suggests some of the elements... | |
 | Robert Samuels - 2001 - 210 pagine
...Marlow continuously returns to a displaced description of behinds and backs: Yes—I let him run on ... and think what he pleased about the powers that were...wretched, old, mangled, steamboat I was leaning against. (43) By claiming that there is nothing behind him, Marlow is able both to present the signifier of... | |
 | John Krapp - 2002 - 246 pagine
.... . I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. (HoD, 30) Ironically, Marlow is authorizing the power of vision just as vision is being rendered most... | |
 | Con Coroneos - 2002 - 218 pagine
...story, remarks: 'I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative that seemed to shape itself without midway between the spatio-temporal individual and the idea, a sort of incarnate principle that brings... | |
 | Michael Eggers - 2003 - 276 pagine
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. Joseph Conrad, Heart ofDarkness Der Erfolg der Heilung Bettinas in Hoffmanns Sanctus ist weniger ein... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 2006 - 222 pagine
...It is impossible. We live, as we dream - alone../' He paused again as if reflecting, then added"Of course in this you fellows see more than I could then....without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river. 11 . . . Yes - I let him run on," Marlow began again, "and think what he pleased about the powers that... | |
 | Bruce F. Kawin - 2006 - 398 pagine
...awake. I listened, I listened on the watch for the sentence, for the word, that would give me the clue to the faint uneasiness inspired by this narrative...itself without human lips in the heavy night-air of the river.17 It is as difficult to see the man in the name as to feel another's dream-sensation. Even so,... | |
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