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Transforming the hero: Joseph Conrad's reconfiguring of masculine identity in "The Secret Sharer".

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20040322
Author:Perel, Zivah

There was something that made comment impossible in his narrative, or perhaps in himself; a sort of feeling, a quality, which I can't find a name for. Joseph Conrad, "The Secret Sharer" (1)

"The Love that dare not speak its name" in this century is such a great affection of an elder for a younger man as there was between David and Jonathan, such as Plato made the very basis of his philosophy, and such as you find in the sonnets of Michelangelo and Shakespeare. Oscar Wilde (2)

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