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The collected letters of Joseph Conrad, volume II: 1898-1902.
From: National Review
Date: 19870410
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey
The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Volume II: 1898-1902
edited by FrederickKarl and Laurence Davies (Cambridge, 483 pp., $44.50)
D. H. LAWRENCE criticized Conrad'spessimism, his belief that "in this world--as I have known it--we are made to suffer without the shadow of a reason, of a cause, or of a guilt.' When I asked a Polish scholar if he thought it true, as Conrad said in Heart of Darkness, that "We live, as we dream--alone,' he bitterly replied: "For Poles, it is true!' Conrad lamented that "the strain of national worry has weakened the moral fiber' of the ...
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