`We did not want to lose him': Jimmy Wait as the Figure of Abjection in Conrad's The Nigger of the “Narcissus”
2001; Berghahn Books; Volume: 13; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3167/001115701782483651
ISSN1752-2293
Autores Tópico(s)Joseph Conrad and Literature
ResumoIn A Personal Record, Conrad tells how, as a small boy, he was fascinated and appalled by a story of his maternal grand-uncle, Nicholas Bobrowski, who served under Napoleon and suffered in the retreat from Moscow. Struggling through the Lithuanian forest and in desperate straits, grand-uncle Nicholas and his two companions came across a village dog and killed it. It was an unsavoury animal, obese with bare patches on its skin, but, as Conrad observes, ‘they had not killed that dog for the sake of the pelt. He was large . . . He was eaten . . .’
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