![]() ![]() The page references given after quotations relate to the 1981 Penguin edition of the novel. For his bravery and boldness, Nostromo climbed the ranks to become the official point man for everyone in Sulaco. ![]() All these features can be brought together by the kind of analysis we have been conducting in this book. Nostromo, whose real name is Giovanni Battista Fidanza, is an expat who became the foreman of the Oceanic Steam and Navigation team (O.S.N.), caretakers who oversee the Sulaco shoreline. Nostromo is something of an adventure story, partly a political novel it has elements of romance, and it explores philosophical questions. For example, by presenting events in a complicated time sequence, which we have to work hard at to understand, Conrad makes us see things in different ways, from diverse points of view. Conrad presents ideas in an elusive way, and in picking our way through them we broaden our own minds. ![]() Many years later, returning to the book, I realised that the excitement comes partly from the difficulty. I also felt that frustration we experience when we know something exciting and important is happening, but cannot quite grasp it. When I first read it, as an ordinary reader - before I eventually became a mature student - I found it totally confusing. Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of 'Costaguana'. ![]() Nostromo was Conrad’s first long novel to gain serious critical acclaim. ![]()
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