Conrad's Marlow
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator; a biographer or an autobiographical screen; a messenger or an interpreter; a bearer of truth or a misguided liar?Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues th