Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad, 1900)
From Commonplace Book
General notes
- published serially in Blackwood's 1899-1900
- 6: why the short précis of the story?
- 7: repeating that he was generally liked -- why? This plural locus of character evaluation?
- 29 so far the reading tends to be in the metaphorics of the story, Jim's sense of advenuture and Marlie saying "before the end is told"
- 31 Patna captain keeps getting compared to objects, objectified