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In `Several Lives,' biographer fails to get to the heart of Conrad
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20080513
Author:journalist in Brooklyn.; Matthew Price is a critic; Matthew Price
Book Review
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
By John Stape
Pantheon, 369 pp., illustrated, $30
Joseph Conrad made great claims on behalf of his art. He famously declared that "my task ... is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see." In a succession of masterpieces - his famous novella "Heart of Darkness" and a quartet of novels, "Lord Jim," "Nostromo," "The Secret Agent," and "Under Western Eyes" - Conrad made good on the claim.
He brought a visionary style and a grave moral seriousness to his stories of tormented exiles, ...
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