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Conrad's sea: invisibility and the death of a symbol.(Joseph Conrad)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060322
Author:Stockdale, Mark

La mer est ton miroir; tu contemples ton ame Dans le deroulement infini da sa lame, Et ton espirit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer Tu te plais a plonger au seine de ton image

Baudelaire, "L'Homme et la Mer" (200)

the immortal sea stretched away, immense and hazy, like the image of life, with a glittering surface and lightless depths; promising, empty, inspiring-- terrible.

Conrad, The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (115)

Writing of the presentation of the sea in Conrad's fiction, Gerald Morgan observes, "Things become symbolic in Conrad's work by reason of the ...

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