However, Virginia Woolf admired 'its magic and mystery.
The novelist Chinua Achebe comments that Conrad's prose is guilty of 'inducing hypnotic stupor in his readers through a bombardment of emotive words and other forms of trickery'. It's as if it was being translated out of another language.' (It is, of course, a well-attested fact that English was actually the Polish-born Conrad's fourth language.) Hacking a path through the more complex sections of Heart of Darkness has been likened to the arduous work of cutting a passage through the thick undergrowth of the Congolese jungle in which that narrative is primarily set. But I don't think anyone ought to imitate him. Priestley, a character remarks: 'It's all very well Conrad writing like that. In the 1946 novel Bright Day by the popular English novelist J. Second, Conrad's style is notoriously 'dense'. For example, the murky world of late nineteenth-century anarchists that forms the backdrop of The Secret Agent does not lend itself to easy familiarity-the novel's subtitle, A Simple Tale, is somewhat misleading if one misses the irony. Although his work has been admired for its range, subtlety and depth and for its handling of major issues such as colonialism, imperialism and the crisis of Western culture, readers facing his novels for the first time sometimes find them difficult to read.įirst, Conrad's subjects are often rooted in inaccessible contexts, and the way in which he treats them sometimes diminishes their accessibility further. (Though when Leavis's book was published in 1948, Conrad's reputation was at a relatively low ebb.) Today, Conrad's politics and prose are under almost constant review. Leavis's The Great Tradition as worthy of being remembered by posterity. He was one of only five authors to be named in E R.
Few writers can have aroused as much critical debate as Joseph Conrad.
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