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248 pages ; 23 cm |
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To study the craft, to follow the process, to read constructively -- The world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas -- My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of written word to make you hear, to make you feel-- it is, before all, to make you see -- I should like to confess my surprise on finding that notwithstanding all its apparartus of analysis the story consists for the most part of physical impressions -- As to the story itself, it is true enough in its essentials. The sustained invention of a really telling lie demands a talent which I dont possess -- The way to as thing that shall make it undergo most doing -- He sought the paragraph and afterward the page and after the page the chapter. And the chapter was sought in relation to the book the book was always in his mind -- It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting and to the magic suggestiveness of music which is the art of arts. |
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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