It's really lovely, isn't it, that scene?Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑June 18th, 2021, 11:18 am In section 15 I lingered over the scene of Antonia and Martin leaning on the window sill, dusk slowly falling, and the passers-by who are scandalized by those two unchaperoned young people. Of course, I couldn't keep my eyes glued to the page but I keep thinking about the scene...
There's a very famous passage in his Preface to "Nigger of the Narcissus" where Conrad writes "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see." He achieves this stunningly in sequence after sequence in Nostromo, I think.
You can read that whole Preface (it's relatively short, and focusses entirely on what he considers his art, as a novelist, to consist of) here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17731/17731-h/17731-h.htm#link2H_PREF
I have uploaded section 16: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/nostromo_16_conrad_128kb.mp3 (33:15)