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An Outcast of the Islands
An Outcast of the Islands | Joseph Conrad
1 post | 5 read
Recounts the psychological and physical sufferings and deterioration of Willems, a self-pitying wretch left by fellow Europeans to his own devices on an isolated Malayan island
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suffisaunce
Mehso-so

Compared to Victory, whose masterful pleasures I was introduced to in university, this one has a pulpy, serialized feel. The protag ish is also a twit. But the story is memorable--even though I'm just enough of a pleb to admit that I don't always know what's going on in Conrad--and the postcolonial dynamic is admittedly fascinating ...