![]() ![]() We are handed “ absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.” And as Conrad warps these Romantic notions of Truth and Beauty to his Modernist purpose, our focus is drawn to Truth’s submerged half, and how we might go about uncovering it.Ĭonrad’s Lord Jim exercises the same framed narrative as many of his other novels, including Heart of Darkness, Chance and Youth. His novel Lord Jim (1900) complicates its narrative to put the burden of interpretation not on the author, but on each individual reader. ![]() One such writer embroiled in this theme was Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924). The sense of complexity was to be the Modernist writer’s fundamental recognition.” Thus, much of Modernist literature metafictively takes as its subject the process through which we come to understand. ![]() Critic Peter Faulkner writes that “ the world of 1910 was felt to be more complex than the orderly world that had been presented to the reader in Victorian literature. Yester-year’s idea of a once-unified reality had become complicated and fragmented, and it was a complication addressed through both the themes and narrative styles of Modernist literature. Of the many facets which identify Modernist literature, one key aspect is its shift in focus from what we interpret, to how we interpret. ![]()
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