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The Burden of Isolation

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From: Literary Review of Canada
Date: 20080401
Author:Wilson, Keith

The Burden of Isolation The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad John Stape Doubleday Canada 378 pages, hardcover ISBN 9780385661683

An unhappy man remains unconsoled by his own literary genius.

In this age of canon reformation, Joseph Conrad's readership, at least as evidenced by the relative infrequency with which his major novels turn up on school and university course syllabi, is smaller than it once was. It has been a long time since ER. Leavis confidently charted for the English novel a great tradition that began with Jane Austen and passed through George Eliot, Henry James and Conrad en ...

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