Another Look: Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow-Line
- Code:
- EVT 935
- Day:
- Tuesday
- Date(s):
- May 10
- Time:
- 7:30 pm
- Location:
- TBA
- Cost:
- FREE
No Registration Required
The Another Look book club focuses on short classics that have been forgotten, neglected, or overlooked—or may simply not have received the attention they merit. The selected works are short, in order to encourage the involvement of Bay Area readers whose time may be limited. Subscription at anotherlook.stanford.edu is encouraged for regular updates and details on the selected books and events. The website will carry additional articles about Joseph Conrad and The Shadow-Line prior to the Spring discussion.
Joseph Conrad’s The Shadow-Line
This Spring’s Another Look book club will discuss The Shadow-Line, a 1917 novella by Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born author who became one of the greatest prose stylists in English, infusing his fiction with his powerful moral vision. The Shadow-Line is a late Conradian masterpiece. It describes the “green sickness of late youth” as a young maritime officer seeks to “flee from the menace of emptiness.” The unnamed narrator’s flight ends when he becomes the captain of a merchant ship in Southeast Asia. The intense psychological trials that he undergoes during his first command are the subject of the novella.
The following Stanford professors will join us:
Robert Pogue Harrison
Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, Stanford; Director, Another Look
Rush Rehm
Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of Classics, Stanford; Actor; Director
Monika Greenleaf
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Stanford
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