Conrad and Gide
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051839074
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Read and Download Russell West book Conrad and Gide in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TConrad and Gide. This book was released on 1996 with total page 187 pages. Book excerpt: This study examines the relations between the work of the Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad and the French Nobel Prize winner André Gide. Gide's translation of Conrad'sTyphoon is read as a work belonging paradoxically to the oeuvres of both writers, where their respective preoccupations meet with illuminating results. Focusing also on other major works by Conrad and Gide, the study suggests that the intertextual and personal interaction between these two masters of 20th Century fiction was governed by processes of identification and projection, conflict between master and disciple and a consequent resistant reading of texts, and confrontation with linguistic and cultural heterogeneity.Issues of translation theory, psychoanalysis and intertextuality are brought together to offer a glimpse of a possible dialogue between literature and ethics. This study will be of interest to students and researchers in English, French and Comparative Literature.