Nostromo Revolution, Silver Mine Politics, and Imperial Corruption in the Fictional Republic of Costaguana
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252
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1,3/15,2/22,9 cm
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351 g
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Englisch
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978-80-285-2392-3
Set in the fictional South American republic of Costaguana, Joseph Conrad's Nostromo is at once a political novel, an adventure tale, and a profound study of moral instability under imperial and economic pressure. Centered on the San Tomé silver mine and the charismatic dockman Nostromo, Conrad traces how revolution, capitalism, and personal ambition distort public virtue. The novel's intricate chronology, shifting perspectives, and densely atmospheric prose place it firmly within literary modernism, while its meditation on power and material greed anticipates later political fiction about empire and extraction. Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in partitioned Poland and seasoned by years at sea in the British merchant marine, brought to his fiction an unusually cosmopolitan sense of political upheaval and human precariousness. His firsthand knowledge of colonial trade routes, unstable ports, and transnational finance deeply informs Nostromo. Written after his experiences in Latin America and amid growing European imperial expansion, the novel reflects Conrad's enduring concern with illusion, loyalty, and the corruptions of modern civilization. This is an essential book for readers interested in the intersection of politics and psychology, as well as for admirers of formally ambitious fiction. Nostromo rewards patient attention with extraordinary intellectual richness, offering not merely a story of revolution, but a lasting meditation on reputation, possession, and the tragic ambiguities of history.
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