Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
By:"Edward W. Said"
Published on 2007-12-01 by Columbia University Press

Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with \

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