![]() ![]() The page references given after quotations relate to the 1981 Penguin edition of the novel. All these features can be brought together by the kind of analysis we have been conducting in this book. Nostromo is something of an adventure story, partly a political novel it has elements of romance, and it explores philosophical questions. Nostromo was Conrads first long novel to gain serious critical acclaim. For example, by presenting events in a complicated time sequence, which we have to work hard at to understand, Conrad makes us see things in different ways, from diverse points of view. Conrad presents ideas in an elusive way, and in picking our way through them we broaden our own minds. Many years later, returning to the book, I realised that the excitement comes partly from the difficulty. ![]() I also felt that frustration we experience when we know something exciting and important is happening, but cannot quite grasp it. When I first read it, as an ordinary reader - before I eventually became a mature student - I found it totally confusing. Nostromo was Conrad’s first long novel to gain serious critical acclaim. ![]()
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