... paddled by black fellows. You could see from afar the white of their eyeballs glistening. They shouted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks— these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality,... The Works of Joseph Conrad - Էջ 73Joseph Conrad - 1921Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle,. a. wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted...there. They were a great comfort to look at. For a time I^jFould[feej_I_beJos^djtUltp_a. world of straight- ••'.- '• •' forward factsj but the JfeeJjng^w.Quld... | |
| Jacques Berthoud - 1978 - 204 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted no excuse for being there. 'Heart of Darkness', p. 61 Paradoxically, it is because of his firm grasp of the norms and conventions... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted...there. They were a great comfort to look at. For a time 1 would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long.... | |
| Richard Ambrosini - 1991 - 274 էջ
...contact with reality." The energy of these men "was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They were a great comfort to look at. For a time I...belonged still to a world of straightforward facts" (61). His recognition of their reality does not allow him to solve the enigma of the mysterious coast,... | |
| Annegreth Horatschek - 1998 - 872 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted...straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. (28) Während die kolonialistische Vereinnahmung des afrikanischen Kontinents aus Marlows Perspektive... | |
| Ursula Lord - 1998 - 382 էջ
...nature of the world he belongs to by recording its impingement upon theirs - the violation of Africa: "For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world...remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast ... In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1999 - 274 էջ
...additional grip and emphasis to the response drawn from him, the instinctive approving recognition: "natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted no excuse for being there." The natives are like the surf, and the voice of the surf is to Marlow "like the speech of a brother."... | |
| Nico Israel - 2000 - 288 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted...being there. They were a great comfort to look at. (HD, 17) Significant here is the association of the "black fellows" with the natural and the true:... | |
| Ian Watt - 2000 - 230 էջ
...chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of movement, that was as natural and true as the surf along their coast. They wanted...being there. They were a great comfort to look at' (61). We may perhaps find some racist assumption in their faces being described as like 'grotesque... | |
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