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"Signifying nothing": Conrad's idiots and the anxiety of modernism. (Joseph Conrad)
From: Studies in Short Fiction
Date: 19960322
Author:Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna
Joseph Conrad's modernist short story, "The Idiots," includes a theme and structuring principle of idiot and convict modes of being. The story is interesting because of its symptomatic significance. Conrad's justified refusal of psychoanalytic or pathobiographical speculation includes the perception of symptomaticity where textual, psychic, and cultural vectors are related.
On or about 25 July 1894, Conrad wrote to Marguerite Poradowska:
Man must drag the ball and chain of his individuality to the very end. It
is the [price] one pays for the infernal and divine privilege of ...
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