📰 Rui Lopes publicou um ensaio no @Publico sobre a literatura de ficção de espionagem, em particular sobre "O Agente Secreto" (1907), de Joseph Conrad, e o impulso que este livro deu ao género literário na viragem para o século XX.

👉 https://www.publico.pt/2025/03/30/culturaipsilon/noticia/vidocq-lecoq-verloc-remoque-agente-secreto-origens-ficcao-espionagem-2127302

#Histodons #HistoryAndLiterature #HistóriaELiteratura #Espionagem #SpyStories #JosephConrad #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Vidocq #Literatura

« A heavy atmosphere of oppressive quietude pervaded the ship. In the afternoon men went about washing clothes and hanging them out to dry in the unprosperous breeze with the meditative languor of disenchanted philosophers. »
#JosephConrad "The Nigger of the Narcissus", 1897, incipit of Chapter 5.

Du Conrad « pur jus » : le monde des marins, les phrases à rallonge, la surcharge d’adjectifs, le balancement « latin » (vs anglo-saxon) de la phrase, le vocabulaire chargé d’influences indo-européennes, et le questionnement implicite du philosophe sur le monde et ce qui, comme le vent pour la marine à voile, le pousse sans qu’il puisse en prendre le contrôle.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JosephConrad #Illusions

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Sunset #NewMexico

🚨 new book alert! 🚨 4 new books on #Modernism
Facing the uncertainty of Modernism, the treatment of #spectrality & #ghosts in works by #JosephConrad, #EMForster, #MaryButts, & #ElizabethBowen is analysed by Stephen Ross: "There is hope in these ghosts, not resignation"

#ModernistLiterature

Capsule Review Archive – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad

There are three #modernist #writers whose #ShortStories remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:

* #SamuelClemens/ #MarkTwain.
* #BrianONolan/ #FlannOBrien/ #MilesNaGopaleen.
* #HermanCharlesBosman.

Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.

#JosephConrad fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.

There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.