I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree, and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me,... Youth: And Two Other Stories - Էջ 76Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 381 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 էջ
...moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face...at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white nicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. The man seemed young — almost a boy —... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 368 էջ
...moribund shapes were free as air — and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face...at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white nicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. The man seemed young — almost a boy —... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 էջ
...moribund shapes were free as air—and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face...at me, enormous and vacant, a kind of blind, white nicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. The man seemed young—almost a boy—but... | |
| Marianna Torgovnick - 1990 - 350 էջ
...vocabulary — as Marlow does often when he uses phrases like "fool nigger," "insolent black head," "The man seemed young — almost a boy — but you know with them it's hard to tell" (20). More — why is the woman the embodiment of Africa? What gives Marlow the right (and why does... | |
| Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Cornel West - 1992 - 454 էջ
...nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation . . . The black bones reclined at full length . . . and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant."'3 It is as if HIV were a disease of "African-ness," the viral embodiment of a long legacy... | |
| Simon Watney - 1994 - 316 էջ
.... . . nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation. The black bones reclined at full length and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant.'" It is as if HIV were a disease of 'Africanness', the viral embodiment of a long legacy of colonial... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 էջ
...moribund shapes were free as air - and nearly as thin. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees. Then, glancing down, I saw a face...sunken eyes looked up at me, enormous and vacant, a land of blind, white flicker in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. The man seemed young... | |
| Gail Fincham, Myrtle Hooper - 1996 - 252 էջ
...compassion can register but cannot cross. When Marlow recognizes one of the dying individually, he comments: "The man seemed young - almost a boy but you know with them it's hard to tell" (20). This sort of denial of the Other's differences is classic racism. Curiously, though, it echoes... | |
| Winfried Georg Sebald - 1998 - 316 էջ
...crept off into the bush. I began to distinguish the gleam of the eyes under the trees, says Marlow. Then, glancing down, I saw a face near my hand. The...in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. And as this man, scarcely more than a boy, breathed his last, those who were not yet worn out were... | |
| Andrew Gibson, R. G. Hampson, Robert Hampson - 1998 - 212 էջ
...the demand or supplication of the face, notably in the case of the "moribund shape' beneath the tree: ...I saw a face near my hand. The black bones reclined...in the depths of the orbs, which died out slowly. (HD, p. 66) But he also repeatedly withdraws from the face into thinking what Levinas calls the category.... | |
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