NostromoBroadview Press, 1997 M04 30 - 453 páginas Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications. It tells the story of a Central American state whose silver mine serves both literally and metaphorically as the source of the country‘s value. Written at the time of the development of the Panama Canal, Nostromo is set in the imaginary province of Sulaco, which secedes from the federation of Costaguana in order to protect its natural resource, the silver mine. The parallels with the ‘revolution’ fomented in Panama by the United States in 1903 are striking; just as Panama seceded from Columbia to satisfy the material interests of the canal builders, so the secession of Sulaco serves the material interests of ‘the Gould concession.’ In this edition a variety of documents from the period (including material concerning American involvement in Central America in the early twentieth century, early critical notices, and family letters of Conrad’s) help to set the text in context. |
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... San Tomé , etc. ... " and ended with the declaration : " The chief of the State has resolved to exercise to the full his power of clemency . The mine , which by every law , international , human , and divine , reverts now to the ...
... San Tomé mine was regarded with respect , indeed , but rather as a subject for discreet jocularity . It was a great man's caprice . In the great Hol- royd building ( an enormous pile of iron , glass , and blocks of stone at the corner ...
... San Tomé mine had its own unofficial pay list , whose items and amounts , fixed in consultation by Charles Gould and Señor Avel- lanos , were known to a prominent business man in the United States , who for twenty minutes or so in every ...
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Introduction | 7 |
A Note on the Text | 38 |
Selected Reviews | 499 |
Derechos de autor | |
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