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Sep 08, 2006 20:22

So I'm watching Apocalypse Now Redux on Bravo and very slightly drunk (which probably is the reason for watching A.N.R.), and I needed to just...rant. A little. In a good way. And I thought about phone-posting, but I might do that later if I keep drinking at this rate. But it's just...Conrad was so good, y'know? Narrative within narrative, layers ( Read more... )

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girlblunder September 9 2006, 03:10:05 UTC

He wrote the book Heart of Darkness, right? I read it in AP Lit my senior year. I loved it. :)

rei_c September 9 2006, 03:14:28 UTC

He did indeed write HoD. I used to absolutely hate it, hated everything Conrad ever wrote, but then I had this kick-ass prof who made me LOVE him and TEACH him and WRITE EXAMS about him, and I just--yes. Love. HoD is, like, the one example of classic Conrad, but there are so many other books he wrote, so many of them are just absolutely fantastic. I'm a huge convert.

girlblunder September 9 2006, 05:55:46 UTC

Oooooo. I must go on a search for others, then. :D

rei_c September 9 2006, 12:32:37 UTC

The short story "Karain: A Memory" might be hard to find, but it's absolutely beautiful. I also really loved Nostromo (the first book I've ever taught, and a damned bloody confusing one, though it's well worth the challenge) and The Secret Agent, one of the first-ever books written about espionage.

bretterriffic September 9 2006, 04:25:08 UTC

i, too, hated conrad when i first read him.

i guess that shouldn't be in past tense since i have not been forced to revisit his work, and still hate him. but maybe, just maybe, your glowing remarks will lead me back his way.

rei_c September 9 2006, 12:29:25 UTC

Someday, Brett. I remember getting stuck reading HoD for, like, three classes in the span of two semesters, and wanted to kill myself, but then I took that Conrad course and my professor was an absolute genius. The more I read, the more we talked, the more I researched to teach, the more I just fell in love. His writing, it's so claustrophobic at times, so confusing and there are so many layers of storytelling and so many various interpretations of people and character and events, like trying to get at something in one of those crazy mirror rooms? Huge convert.