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Journey's end: Conrad as revenant in Alex Garland's The Beach.(Joseph Conrad)

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From: Conradiana
Date: 20070322
Author:Bowen, Roger

To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion.

--W. H. Auden, "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"

"Tell me why you're here." "The horror." "What horror?" "The horror." "What horror?"

--Alex Garland, The Beach

In his valuable contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad, Gene Moore makes a strong case for Conrad's status as "a living part of our cultural self-awareness," an author with "a profound influence on the way we perceive and define the modern condition" (223). Conrad is still "living" in the culture in part because he wrote about ...

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