Conrad’s Complaint
Frank Kermode, 17 November 1983
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. I: 1861-1897
edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies.
Cambridge, 446 pp., £19.50, September 1983,0 521 24216 9 Show More
edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies.
Cambridge, 446 pp., £19.50, September 1983,
“... is that Conrad, consciously or not, is engaged in preliminary writing exercises. Here is the young Korzeniowski fitting his aristocratic scorn of the mob into English idioms; he is saying that the failure of the Tories to achieve a majority at the General Election of 1885 was a consequence of Joseph Chamberlain’s Third Reform Bill. The newly ... ”