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A review by dalewahl
Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad
3.0
This is a sad book, an insightful book, a strange book, and ultimately a good book. The prose is descriptive and beautiful; it does a magnificent job of painting this far off place, just as it does a great job of showing the political, cultural, and social struggles of the time.
I say it is strange because the characters are almost too set in their ways. There is no room for change or development. But they do not feel like caricatures. And maybe that tells us something. About the time certainly, but also about people or at least some of them. There-in lies both the insight and the sadness.
I say it is strange because the characters are almost too set in their ways. There is no room for change or development. But they do not feel like caricatures. And maybe that tells us something. About the time certainly, but also about people or at least some of them. There-in lies both the insight and the sadness.