Lord Jim
Conrad's most sustained meditation on cowardice, honor, and the impossibility of recovering one's self after a single moral failure.
“He was one of us.”
Why It Matters
Conrad's most sustained meditation on cowardice, honor, and the impossibility of recovering one's self after a single moral failure. The novel's narrative method — Marlow's obsessive, looping inquiry — became the template for modernist fiction's interest in unreliable witness and the limits of knowledge.
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Personal reviewAwesome unique moral questions about knowing you didn’t act virtuous and how to face that and the wretched ambiguity around that.But super hard to understand what’s going on sentence to sentence and chapter to chapter. Needed online summaries to help me
Notable Quotes
“In the destructive element immerse.”
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.”