 Conrad's dislike for the English language, then, was, during all the years of our association, extreme, his contempt for his medium unrivalled. Again and again during the writing of, say, "Nostromo" he expressed passionate regret that it was then too...  Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance - Էջ 228Ford Madox Ford - 1924 - 276 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Geoffrey Galt Harpham - 1996 - 232 էջ
...language," Ford recalls, was "extreme, his contempt for his medium unrivalled" (226). Why? Because "he was convinced that he would never master English....which it was impossible to write a direct statement" (228). All English words, Conrad told Ford, "are instruments for exciting blurred emotions." In French,... | |
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