Joseph Conrad, the novels of depersonalization

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The novels of depersonalization refer to those few cases in which the colonist - the modern man, the exponent of the Euro-American universe - loses his identity under the influence of the colonized - the primitive man, the exponent of the traditional Asian or African universe, and becomes a depersonalized tragic fellow. The novels of destruction are Conrad's traditional novels of anti-colonialism in which the modern civilization annihilates and destroys the primitive world and leads, symbolically to the termination of the archetypal spirit.

Conrad met Marlow in a resort. Marlow is Joseph Conrad's ALTER EGO. They are both sailors for the British Empire at the end of the XIXth century and the beginning of the XXth century, a period that represents the height of British imperialism. Marlow is the narrator of 2 of Joseph Conrad's depersonalization novels: HEART OF DARKNESS (1889), LORD JIM (1900), as well as of CHANCE (1913).Conrad was a painter of moral abyss and of the material interests: gold - in Almayer's folly, silver in Nostromo, ivory - in The nigger of the Narcissus.

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Cuprins

Introduction.....................................................3

Chapter I. Joseph Conrad's life and work...........................10
I.1. Joseph Conrad's life...................................10
I.2. Joseph Conrad's work...................................13

Chapter II. From the novels of depersonalization to the novels of destruction.............................................27
II.1. The novels of depersonalization...............................27
II.2. The novel of destruction..................................41

Conclusions.............................................49

Bibliography.........................................51