Conrad's Marlow by Paul Wake
Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's 'Youth' (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912). Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar? Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality - in his constantly shifting position - and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling.
Paul Wake is Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719074905 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719074908 |
| Title | Conrad's Marlow |
| Author | Paul Wake |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2007-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
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