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The "passion of paternity'--Fathers and Daughters in the Works of Joseph Conrad.(Critical essay)
From: Conradiana
Date: 20070922
Author:Turner, Jennifer
"And an immense and fierce impulse, the very passion of paternity, flamed up with all the unquenched vigour of his worthless life in a desire to see her face" ("End" 320)
In July 1902, Joseph Conrad wrote to Ford Madox Ford bemoaning the laborious development of "The End of the Tether": "I am most desperately unhappy and harrowed by the awful task of trying to get the mood" (CL 2: 435). Though akin to his usual protestations of frustration and self-doubt, the emphasis on "mood" hints at a sense of discomfort with the morally dubious paternal dilemma at the heart of this text. ...
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