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Lord Jim (1900)

av Joseph Conrad

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This immortal novel of the sea tells the story of a British sailor haunted by a single youthful act of cowardly betrayal. To the white men in Bombay, Calcutta, and Rangoon, Jim is a man of mystery. To the primitive natives deep in the Malayan jungle, he is a god gifted with supernatural powers. To the beautiful half-caste girl who flees to his hut for protection, he is a lord to be feared and loved. Lord Jim-- Conrad' s classic portrait of a man' s guilt, his search for forgiveness, and his final, tragic redemption-- is a work of enduring value and one of the world' s great masterpieces.… (mer)
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A young man believes in his own courage, but is scarred by an act of cowardice and spends years trying to live it down. A bit of a tough read, due to nothing more than the profound lack of paragraph breaks. I had not known that Marlowe is a recurring character in Conrad. ( )
  adamhindman | Feb 5, 2024 |
Just returned from a trip to the south western Atlantic coast of France for a few days, staying in a hotel with a view of the surf pounding on the shore line. Capbreton is perhaps the surfing capital of France and walking on the broad endless beaches backed by sand-dunes is an intoxicating experience. I envied the people, young and fit enough to get up on their surf boards in those great Atlantic rollers. I had consciously chosen a book that would have some flavour of a sea-going experience hence Josephs Conrads Lord Jim, but it felt in essence a million miles away from the carefree lifestyle that seems to encompass the world of surfing. I looked up from my book and thought about the Beach Boys. I only got halfway through the book on vacation and only connected with the book when I got back home and finished the read.

Lord Jim is really a book of two stories, but without a dividing line. They are told by the narrator Marlow who tells a tragic personal story of love and loss to a group of his cronies. In the first Jim is a young adventurous seaman who faces an extreme moral dilemma when the Patna; a rusty old tub of a boat, overcrowded with pilgrims starts to sink after a collision with an obstacle in the ocean. Jim is the Mate; second in command in a crew of four disparate Europeans. The Patna becomes a "cause celebre" especially after the public inquiry, which will decide whether the crew should lose their licences to practice as seaman. Marlow then tells how he tried to help Jim get over the trauma of the inquiry by finding work for him along the seaboard and the second story takes place on a remote island that Conrad calls Patusan probably part of Indonesia. Jim earns the title Lord Jim (Tuan Jim) as the representative of a Dutch trading enterprise working alone in a hostile environment and becomes the de facto head man of the island and takes a native wife, however when a pirate ship visits, the underlying tensions on the island come to a head.

Jim is a powerfully built, attractive man and a parson's son. He never loses his thirst for adventure, he is a romantic who wants desperately to do the right thing, he has a boyish air about him, which he never quite loses. An injury suffered while training to be a seaman and then the incident on the Patna causes him deep trauma, which he is unable to get over, they colour all his subsequent actions, he feels a need to atone for deficiencies of character which take him outside the company of normal men. The soul searching, the desire to make a better fist of things lead him to take solace at times with Marlow. His relationship with other men is certainly homosocial and maybe homosexual, but Conrad is careful never to make this explicit.

Lord Jim was published in 1900 a year after Heart of Darkness and has a similar viewpoint on colonialism which of course leaves it open to accusations of racism. Marlow expresses views on colonialism in a letter which would have probably been a la mode at the time:

You said also - I call to mind - that giving your life up to them (them meaning all of mankind with skins brown, yellow or black in colour) "was like selling your soul to a brute." You contended that: "that kind of thing" was only endurable and enduring when based on a firm conviction in the truth of ideas racially our own in whose name are established the order, the morality of an ethical progress. "We want its strength at our backs" you had said. "we want a belief in its necessity and its justice, to make a worthy and conscious sacrifice of our lives......

It is by no means an easy to read adventure story. The narrative is told to us mostly by Marlowe, but also by letters and so there are some different interpretations of character. Conrad conceals from the reader the fate of the Patna for some time, by jumping backwards and forwards in time. The reader is constantly invited to read between the lines especially in the conversations between Marlow and Jim and it is by not always clear where we are in the timeline of the story or who is actually doing the talking. It is a psychological portrait of a character who finds it difficult to express his thoughts and emotions. It took me some time to get to grips with Conrad's style, but he has a way of describing events and the natural world that put this reader right in touch with the late 19th century.

Jim is never given a formal name and when we are told Jim's story on Patusan I could not help thinking of captain James T Kirk of the starship Enterprise. In reflection Jim has a similar modus operandi when dealing with alien species (in this case natives) in trying to impose his culture onto theirs.
A 4 star literary read ( )
  baswood | Oct 2, 2023 |
Una novela en la que se percibe la pasión del autor por la navegación. Muy buena, aunque lenta a veces. ( )
  InigoAngulo | Sep 2, 2023 |
I did not finish this book. I think I definitely gave it a fair shot ... I was at 63% on a kindle version before I realized that, not only was I not enjoying it anymore, the words were no longer even registering as coherent thoughts. I thought the earlier part of the book, watching Jim unravel as he internalizes the very essence of courage and cowardice was simply brilliant. To me, the book could have stopped after the trial with maybe one or two chapters dealing with the aftermath. The latter half of the book just didn't do it for me. I wanted Jim's thoughts and perspectives, not the ever-changing point of view that resulted in a messy, unfocused narrative. Life is too short to read books that don't speak to you. And the latter part of this one lost me. ( )
  AliceAnna | Aug 12, 2023 |
Very uneven, almost as if Conrad patched together two or three unalike books. Rather imbalanced ratio of plot to exposition, and I'm one who likes plenty of exposition. ( )
  judeprufrock | Jul 4, 2023 |
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Conrad, JosephFörfattareprimär författarealla utgåvorbekräftat
Adams, J. DonaldInledningmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Crossley, StevenBerättaremedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Hampson, RobertRedaktörmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Lorch, FritzÖversättaremedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Mathias, RobertOmslagsformgivaremedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Monod, SylvèreFörordmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Monsarrat, NicholasInledningmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Mursia, UgoÖversättaremedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Prinzhofer, RenatoÖversättaremedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Sherry, NormanInledningmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Siciliano, EnzoFörordmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Stafford, EdFörordmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
Ward, LyndIllustratörmedförfattarevissa utgåvorbekräftat
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