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Funny how those not-finished novels come back to us--but we are undoubtedly better able to grapple with them now. I grappled with this as a teen or young adult and it never left me. Did look at it again later, but it seemed so melodramatic...not that one could claim the Congo is not that, and more.
Glad to see one of your reviews pop up in my feed after too long, Warwick - though this one was't here yesterday, I'm pretty sure, yet it is now buried under a raft of other reviews, some of which I did see yesterday. A goodreads mystery.
In any case, I'm glad to read your thoughts on Conrad and his musings on rivers and the people who've sailed up them determined to steal whatever is for the taking. So many places in the world have been raped via their rivers - the Nile, the Amazon, the Mekong, the Murray-Darling....not to forget Anna Livia ;-)
Thanks Nuala, your reviews have been entirely absent from my feed for weeks now, it's very frustrating…as you say, another of GR's strange subroutinal quirks… And yes, when you put it like that, you're quite right about rivers. Poor ALP!
@Trish, yeah I think that is also Adam Hochschild's view, about the melodrama I mean – that the novel involves less allegory and more reportage than it's usually credited with.
I agree with you, it has atmosphere. In a way, it's captivating, but it's also confusing, faulty and brilliant at times. Since it's short, I'm truly glad I read it. I like his writing, even when I'm not always sure what it is I'm reading!
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Jul 07, 2016 09:24AM
Funny how those not-finished novels come back to us--but we are undoubtedly better able to grapple with them now. I grappled with this as a teen or young adult and it never left me. Did look at it again later, but it seemed so melodramatic...not that one could claim the Congo is not that, and more.
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Glad to see one of your reviews pop up in my feed after too long, Warwick - though this one was't here yesterday, I'm pretty sure, yet it is now buried under a raft of other reviews, some of which I did see yesterday. A goodreads mystery.In any case, I'm glad to read your thoughts on Conrad and his musings on rivers and the people who've sailed up them determined to steal whatever is for the taking. So many places in the world have been raped via their rivers - the Nile, the Amazon, the Mekong, the Murray-Darling....not to forget Anna Livia ;-)
Thanks Nuala, your reviews have been entirely absent from my feed for weeks now, it's very frustrating…as you say, another of GR's strange subroutinal quirks… And yes, when you put it like that, you're quite right about rivers. Poor ALP!@Trish, yeah I think that is also Adam Hochschild's view, about the melodrama I mean – that the novel involves less allegory and more reportage than it's usually credited with.
I agree with you, it has atmosphere. In a way, it's captivating, but it's also confusing, faulty and brilliant at times. Since it's short, I'm truly glad I read it. I like his writing, even when I'm not always sure what it is I'm reading!
