'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad
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'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad
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"[...]dared say I would give him a cup of coffee presently. “I am afraid you will have a poor breakfast,” I cried apologetically. “We have been sixty-one days at sea, you know.” A quiet little laugh, with a “That’ll be all right, Captain,” was his answer. All this, words, intonation, the glimpsed attitude of the man in the cuddy, had an unexpected character, a something friendly in it—propitiatory. And my surprise was not diminished thereby. What did this call mean? Was it the sign of some dark design against my commercial innocence? Ah! These commercial interests—spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade—and for war as well? Why kill and traffic on it, pursuing selfish aims of no great importance after all? It would have been so much nicer just to sail about with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one’s legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while. But, living in a world more or less homicidal and desperately mercantile, it was plainly my duty to make the best of its opportunities. My owners’ letter had left it to me, as I have said before, to do my best for[...]".
'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad- Published on: 2015-03-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .42" w x 6.00" l, .48 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 184 pages
About the Author J. A. Berthoud is Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York.Laura L. Davis is Associate Provost and Associate Professor of English at Kent State University.S. W. Reid is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Conrad Studies at Kent State University.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Twixt Conrad and Modernism By Stephen Balbach `'Twixt Land and Sea` (1912) is a collection of three short stories by Joseph Conrad. After a hiatus from sea stories Conrad returned to his roots much to the delight of his fans. Conrad intentionally published these stories in a single volume, they hold together as a whole, greater than the parts, as described below."Secret Sharer" is one of Conrad's best short stories in general, and without a doubt the best of the three. Although the action takes place aboard a ship, for the most part it is a symbolic journey of the discovery of self. A young untested Captain is faced with a number of challenges - morally, and as a skilled sailor - and is able to show to himself and the crew that he is a capable captain. In the end it is ambiguous if the Captain made the right choices - was he morally right or wrong in freeing an escaped murderer? Conrad leaves no solid ground to decided if it was the right choice or not, there are good arguments either way. Was it reckless to put the ship in peril by going to close to shore? Was it morally right to free a man who was essentially innocent, in effect choosing humanity over unbending law? The atmosphere of the story is creepy, almost super-natural, but Conrad remains firmly in the ground of realism, yet also employing symbolism in things such as the hat and scorpion. This combination of realism and symbolism is the very definition of Modernism and Conrad was at the forefront."Freya of the Seven Isles" is written as a melodrama, but Conrad doesn't follow the rules of the genre, he twists the ending; the evil guy gets away without repercussions, and the good guys pay a steep price for doing the right thing. It's an anti-melodrama. A very dark story and not very satisfying. The implication is that life is not a fairy-tale, stuff happens and no matter how hard we work, life can just turn out bad no matter what we do. I wonder if this sort of fatalism was common in the years leading up to World War I."A Smile of Fortune" is essentially the same idea as "Freya" but in reverse, sometimes bad things happen that turn out to be "fortunate". In this story a young man is blackmailed into taking a shipload of potatoes (a seemingly worthless haul), but when he arrives at his destination port, he discovers there is a potato shortage and ends up profiting greatly. The tricked becomes the trickster. In both of these stories the themes of fate and fortune have a long tradition in Medieval literature, making them essentially Romantic works, but with a Modern twist. Like the title suggests, between land and sea, the stories are somewhat of a mixture of styles, hybrid mutts, sort of like Conrad, a Polish expat writing in English.
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