Almayer's Folly - Brossura

Conrad, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1534942149 ISBN 13: 9781534942141

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Riassunto

Almayer’s Folly is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice. Nadine Gordimer writes in her Introduction, “Conrad’s writing is lifelong questioning . . . What was ‘Almayer’s Folly’? The pretentious house never lived in? His obsession with gold? His obsessive love for his daughter, whose progenitors, the Malay race, he despised? All three?” Conrad established in Almayer’s Folly the themes of betrayal, isolation, and colonialism that he would explore throughout the rest of his life and work.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1534942149
• ISBN 13: 9781534942141
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 170
• Redattore: Cedeno Yasmira