On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Etienne Borgers wrote:
> By its modernity Conrad was certainly influential
on
> many writers of the 20th century, and is
certainly
> also one of the missing links that could
make
> something like Noir novels possible (I don't try
to
> tell you,however, that he was at the origin of
Noir-
> even if one of his major character's name was
Marlow
> -Youth and Darkness)
This is exactly the point James Naremore makes in his
wonderful book
"More Than Night": if Orson Welles had directed "Heart of
Darkness", like he had planned, it would've been called truly
the first film noir.
But since we are on Conrad (I'd say he's off-topic, but who
am I to judge?), I'd like to say that in "Heart of Darkness"
he did what every writer should do: make more out of less.
It's so little, yet so big. Everything is there, from fear to
rise and fall of capitalism and imperialism. And racism, of
course, but who can think of a adventure book written in 1902
that is totally without racism?
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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