Youth Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 9781427018557 Books
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Youth (1856) is an autobiographical novel by Leo Tolstoy and is the third in his trilogy of novels that begins with Childhood and Boyhood. It is the story of the son of wealthy landlord who is slow in realising the differences and class distinctions betwe
Youth Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 9781427018557 Books
This is a great little novelette for a lazy afternoon. Not as famous as some of Conrad's other works, but evey bit as good. Words crafted at a time when writers had only pen, ink, paper, and mind with which to forge literature that would last throughout the ages.This book will hit you in the soul if you are a man now in your middle age years and spent your youth living in the Far East. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). If you are in that or a similar category, just read it. It's a testament to the fact that men spend the first half of their life having adventures, and the second half of their life remembering them.
At least if they did it right. ☺
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Youth Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy 9781427018557 Books Reviews
CONRAD hits his full stride with this engaging short novel of youth and danger at sea.
This wonderful short book is still relevant, though written over 150 years ago. Conrad had a love affair with the English language, as only a foreign speaker can. I would recommend it to anyone.
Chose to not read at your peril. No one should turn away from this hour of grace and beauty. Inhale deeply of the morning of your "Youth", or if not youth, live joyfully of that time, and the gift if days remaining.
Another work by Conrad I am pleased to have read.
A very moving story. The paintings in this little edition make it a worthwhile purchase as a separate book. It is included in other editions of stories but without the full color pictures.
I chose this rating because the author made the story of the old man as a young sailor come alive for me.
The three long stories in this volume include two of Joseph Conrad's most familiar - Youth & Heart of Darkness - which have been detached anthologized and assigned to high school lit classes ad nauseam, but in fact the three were published together in 1902 under the title "Youth a Narrative, and Two Other Stories." Conrad scholars maintain that the author originally intended "Lord Jim" to be the third of three tales told in the voice of Captain Marlow, but that Lord Jim got too massive on its own account, necessitating the substitution of "The End of the Tether," a classic third person narration. "Youth" marked Marlow's debut as a narrator within a narration, relating his own first great adventure to a small circle of friends, one of whom is the nameless author, presumably Conrad himself; thus we get a first-person framework around an extended quotation of a first-person yarn. One has to wonder if readers in 1902 were daunted. If so, they had NO idea how involuted Conrad's narrative structures would become, beginning with Heart of Darkness, and reaching an apogee in the later novel "Chance." The barest explanation for Conrad's increasingly indirect style of narration is that he couldn't accept his own authorial omniscience, that he needed a kind of vivid uncertainty and contingency in order to portray the reality of human existence as he felt it. Even the straightforward narrative of The End of the Tether requires the artful withholding of a key piece of information until the story is three-quarters told. (Warning Do NOT read the intro, or any other reviews, or even the blurb on the back cover before reading The End of the Tether!)
Despite the absence of Marlow from the third and longest story, nonetheless, this collection has important qualities of structural unity. 1. All three stories are set on steam ships. 2. The first and the last report horrendous accidents in which the ships sink. 3. Most important, the three stories represent the three stages of an adult man's life youth, midlife, and old age. You can translate those three stages into the language of psychologist Erik Erikson, as "confidence vs avoidance", "certainty vs confusion", and "serenity vs despair." More or less, anyway; Conrad is anything but reductionist.
"Youth" is a gripping tale of the testing of a young man's mettle, a headlong rush of a story that shouldn't need any analysis, but critics have tormented every line of it for hidden meanings and fracture lines. Marlow's occasional interruptions of his narration, to say "Pass the bottle," have been teased into post-modernist assaults on Conrad's latent discomfort with his surrogate's sentimentality. Huh? "Pass the bottle" is Conrad's translation of the old Viking toast SKULL! Any son of the baltic Sea would take it as such. And believe you me, "Youth" is Conrad's purest Viking saga!
"Heart of Darkness" could just as easily be titled "Heart of Obscurity." It is obscure as well as dark, a tale of insanity and brutality with no heroic redemptive margins. It begins with Marlow once again yarning to his friends, aboard a ship on the Thames, about an ordeal -- to call it an adventure would be misleading -- as the captain of a river steamer in the Belgian Congo. Marlow's reminiscences are stimulated by his thoughts of the impression the Thames would have made on the first Romans who invaded Britain as civilizers. That brief revery sets ups Conrad's agonizing descriptions of the corruption of modern colonialism, specifically in Africa. "Mr. Kurtz" is only one of the civilizing monsters in this story, though his figure has received the most critical scrutiny. There are also the odious company agent and his nephew, the ragamuffin Russian 'explorer' who idolizes Kurtz, and Marlow himself. And there's a cast of "African masks" - semi-naked savages so incomprehensible that they seem more like carved idols than actual humans. Last, least, but urgently significant, there are two women ostensibly attached to Kurtz, one white and one black. Teachers! Please! Don't assign this story to your classes! Let the students find it for themselves! I know it's a powerhouse, a veritable treasure cairn of ambiguity, but it's too intimidating. The reader should need a special chauffeur's license before driving in that darkness.
It must have come as a relief to the readers of 1902 to confront the reassuring virtues and dignity of Captain Whalley, the intrepid but superannuated hero -- yes, Hero! -- of The End of the Tether. A famous seaman in the days of sailing ships, Whalley has come upon poverty and irrelevance in his later years. His single remaining purpose is to provide for his only child, a daughter married to a fool and cripple in Australia, whom he hasn't seen in years. To do so, he enters a bizarre partnership with a despicable half-crazy engineer who happens to own a rust-bucket steamer. But Captain Whalley has a secret.... (and that's why you shouldn't read any spoilers; this is surely the only Conrad story that depends on the reader's surprise for its effect.)
I have just a few more Conrad novels to read or re-read and review now, after a year or so of exchanging thoughts about this Titan of literature with other readers, particularly H. Schneider, via . I'll be sorry to finish. Conrad is unique.
This is a great little novelette for a lazy afternoon. Not as famous as some of Conrad's other works, but evey bit as good. Words crafted at a time when writers had only pen, ink, paper, and mind with which to forge literature that would last throughout the ages.
This book will hit you in the soul if you are a man now in your middle age years and spent your youth living in the Far East. (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). If you are in that or a similar category, just read it. It's a testament to the fact that men spend the first half of their life having adventures, and the second half of their life remembering them.
At least if they did it right. ☺
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