'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and
gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never
felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact
date?)Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and
experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned
obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings
with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low
by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is
haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed
a work full of 'sudden passions', in which Conrad is able to show how
the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in
the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to 'stand up to his
bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience'. A subtle and
penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line
investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that
counterpoints the tale's seemingly conventional surface. ABOUT THE
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ISBN
9780191611018
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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