Joseph Conrad and the Anxiety of Knowledge

by William Freedman

An alternate view of the perplexing and often contradictory fiction of an elusive author

Few if any writers in the English language have been cited, praised, chided, or marveled at more routinely than Joseph Conrad for the perplexing evasiveness, contradictoriness, and indeterminacy of their fiction. William Freedman argues that the explanations typically offered for these identifying characteristics of much of Conrad's work are inadequate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161117306X
• ISBN13: 9781611173062
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"