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环礁湖 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)康拉德 Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) I. a Polish-born British novelist. II. Some of his works have been labeled romantic, although Conrad‘s romanticism is tempered with irony and a fine sense of man’s capacity for self-deception（自欺欺人）. III. Many critics have placed him as a forerunner of modernism. Modernism Discontinuity and fragmentation Juxtaposition (并列) and multiple points of view（多重视角） Lack of a unitary self “Self” is seen as artificial, a social fiction of undetermined status Individual is stripped of (剥去)the traditional defining categories of personhood（人格） Weeping Woman (1937) Modernist fiction crisis attempts to represent the underlying truths of consciousness psyche(心智) rejection of external, unitary, coherent appearance of realist conventions lack of causality(因果性) insufficiency of language oppositional relations between the individual and the social, alienation first person narrator, often unreliable A sense of urban dislocation and alienation works by male writers tend to be misogynistic（厌恶女人的人） Joseph conrad (1857-1924) IV. Works A. Novels and Novellas (短篇故事；中篇小说) ex: Heart of Darkness (1899) Lord Jim (1900) B. Short stories ex: Amy Foster (1901) 康拉德小说在布局、叙述角度及象征手法等方面有意识的进行一系列个性，他的小说成为英国现代主义文学的先声 Modernism Prevalent in the period between the two World Wars (but also before and after) The Lagoon a short story by Joseph Conrad composed in 1896 and first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1897. The story is about a white man that is referred to as ‘Tuan’ （先生）, travelling through an Indonesian rainforest, who is forced to stop for the night with a distant Malay(马来西亚人) friend named Arsat. Upon arriving, he finds Arsat distraught（发狂）, for his lover is dying. Arsat tells the distant and rather silent white man a story of his past . Characters The White Man: Traveler who captains a sampan（小船） propelled(推进) by Malay oarsmen（桨手）. His Malay friend, Arsat, addresses him as Tuan, a title of