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Shores in Joseph Conrad's works.(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20050922
Author:Le Boulicaut, Yannick

In the "Malay trilogy," Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, and The Rescue, (1) Conrad used the Malay topology which forms his first literary stimulus. The Malay background was used not only as an exotic (2) and romantic frame but as a rich, complex, and varied structure which runs through many of his other novels and stories. Riverbanks, mud flats, shores, and sandbanks belong to a complex literary topology Conrad was fond of. These territories give birth to a real narrative strategy, the shores of language, of races, cultures, and genders (3) being as important as the ...

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