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Conrad's impasse: The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and the invention of Marlow.(Joseph Conrad)(Critical essay)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20060922
Author:Deresiewicz, William

By the summer of 1896, Joseph Conrad's fledgling, late-started literary career had reached an impasse. Though he had already published two novels, reviews of the second--which had come out that May--were decidedly mixed (Najder 198). Two months earlier, after half a year of dogged work, he had abandoned a third project, The Sisters, and following Edward Garnett's rather unfortunate advice that he stick to exotic subjects, had begun a fourth, The Rescuer (Najder 183, 197). This, too, went nowhere (and would ultimately take some twenty-four years to complete); in Najder's words, ...

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