Almayer's Folly A Story of Colonial Ambition and Ruin
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
03.04.2018
Verlag
Smk BooksSeitenzahl
136
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.7/1.2 cm
Gewicht
359 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-5154-3568-6
Almayer's Folly is Joseph Conrad's first novel, a dark story of colonial ambition, delusion, family fracture, and ruin on a remote river in Borneo. Kaspar Almayer, a Dutch trader stranded in the Malay Archipelago, dreams of wealth, status, and escape. He imagines hidden gold, European recognition, and a future grand enough to justify the decaying house that others mock as "Almayer's Folly." But the world around him is not waiting to fulfill his fantasies, and the people closest to him have dreams of their own. At the center of the novel is Almayer's daughter Nina, caught between her father's European ambitions and the Malay world he despises but cannot escape. As trade, politics, romance, betrayal, and racial tension tighten around the family, Conrad turns a story of adventure and treasure-hunting into something more psychologically severe: a study of colonial failure, self-deception, and the human cost of living inside a fantasy of superiority. Readers interested in Joseph Conrad, classic literary fiction, colonial and postcolonial literature, psychological novels, Southeast Asian settings, and early modernist fiction will find Almayer's Folly an important beginning. First published in 1895, it introduces many of the concerns that would shape Conrad's later work: exile, moral blindness, imperial illusion, divided loyalties, and the uneasy meeting of European ambition with worlds it does not understand.
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