The Literature Network - "A very charming old gentleman": Conrad, Count Szembek, and "Il Conde".(Joseph Conrad)

"A very charming old gentleman": Conrad, Count Szembek, and "Il Conde".(Joseph Conrad)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20050322
Author:Carabine, Keith

I first started teaching "Il Conde" over thirty years ago, and it remains one of my favorite stories not least because it is a classic example of the rhetorical strategies Conrad employs to ensure "the reader collaborates with the author" (CL2, p. 394). As you may remember, the anonymous old Count's version of his "abominable adventure" is accepted by his admiring auditor, the frame narrator of the story. But on closer inspection, every aspect of the story subtly invites the discriminating reader to construct an alternative explanation for the Count's adventure against the grain ...

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