In this essay I will concentrate my analysis on some works Conrad set in Europe and whose characters are European. I will discuss how in these texts the author provides an uncompassionate portrayal of one of European culture’s strongholds: the family, that is the microcosm on which Western society (and Victorian Britain) was built. The topic of family dissolution will be explored as it appears in “The Idiots” (1896) and “The Return” (1898),3 included in his first collection of short stories, Tales of Unrest (1898), and in two works of his middle period, namely “Amy Foster” (1901)4 and The Secret Agent, his novel of 1907.
Guarducci, M.P., Kujawska-Lis, E. (2023). (Un)Familiar Ground. European Domestic Dramas in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad. In Ewa Kujawska-Lis (a cura di), Joseph Conrad’s Texts and Intertexts (pp. 181-202). Lublin and New York : Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press; Columbia University Press.
(Un)Familiar Ground. European Domestic Dramas in the Fiction of Joseph Conrad
Maria Paola Guarducci
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2023-01-01
Abstract
In this essay I will concentrate my analysis on some works Conrad set in Europe and whose characters are European. I will discuss how in these texts the author provides an uncompassionate portrayal of one of European culture’s strongholds: the family, that is the microcosm on which Western society (and Victorian Britain) was built. The topic of family dissolution will be explored as it appears in “The Idiots” (1896) and “The Return” (1898),3 included in his first collection of short stories, Tales of Unrest (1898), and in two works of his middle period, namely “Amy Foster” (1901)4 and The Secret Agent, his novel of 1907.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
