Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on the text
- Introduction
- Part I Conrad's French literary and cultural background
- Part II Conrad's debt to French authors
- Part III Conrad's philosophical and aesthetic inheritance
- Part IV Conclusion
- Appendix Conrad's knowledge of French writers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General name index
- Index of Conrad's links with other writers
Part III - Conrad's philosophical and aesthetic inheritance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Note on the text
- Introduction
- Part I Conrad's French literary and cultural background
- Part II Conrad's debt to French authors
- Part III Conrad's philosophical and aesthetic inheritance
- Part IV Conclusion
- Appendix Conrad's knowledge of French writers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General name index
- Index of Conrad's links with other writers
Summary
‘Conrad was obsessed by the idea of […] a Destiny that was august, blind, inscrutable, just and above all passionless’.
Ford, p. 163The power of Flaubert's principles over Conrad all through his writing career and the astounding way […] in which he stuck to those principles […] is one of the most fascinating sights literature has to offer us.’
Edward Crankshaw, Joseph Conrad p. 67- Type
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- Information
- The French Face of Joseph Conrad , pp. 147 - 148Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990