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Ivory Apes and Peacocks
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ISBN10: 1548300659
ISBN13: 9781548300654
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 28 2017
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781548300654
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 28 2017
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
That many of his stories were in the best sense lived there can be no doubt-he has at odd times confessed it, confessions painfully wrung from him, as he is no friend of the interviewer. The white-hot sharpness of the impressions which he has projected upon paper recalls Taine's dictum: les sensations sont des hallucinations vraies. Veritable hallucinations are the seascapes and landscapes in the South Sea stories, veritable hallucinations are the quotidian gestures and speech of his anarchists and souls sailing on the winds of noble and sinister passions. For Conrad is on one side an implacable realist....
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