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A review by michaelwong
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
5.0
"'...Look under the bed'. Of course I stooped instantly. I defy anybody not to have done so" p. 31
“‘...a flake of rust as big as the palm of my hand fell off the plate, all of itself’” p. 54
"The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain-or was it perchance, at the coming of night? One had not the courage to decide;" p. 155
“‘Because he is not good enough,’I said brutally” p. 206
One of my takes is that Conrad is trying to be progressive on race, which is admirable, though it also causes his era's latent racism to show through.
“‘...a flake of rust as big as the palm of my hand fell off the plate, all of itself’” p. 54
"The whisper of his conviction seemed to open before me a vast and uncertain expanse, as of a crepuscular horizon on a plain-or was it perchance, at the coming of night? One had not the courage to decide;" p. 155
“‘Because he is not good enough,’I said brutally” p. 206
One of my takes is that Conrad is trying to be progressive on race, which is admirable, though it also causes his era's latent racism to show through.