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Titolo: Lord Jim

Sto cercando disperatamente un riassunto fatto bene di Lord Jim di
Joseph Conrad.grazie a tutti!

grazie a tutti!
Prego.
maria

 Joseph Conrad.grazie a tutti!
Jim is the son of an English parson and becomes a ship's chief mate, with an
ambition to do heroic and romantic things with his life. He sails on the
Patna (c. 1883), a merchant ship carrying Arab pilgrims to Mecca. The Patna
hits a submerged obstacle on his watch and appears to be sinking, with a
rusty bulkhead threatening any moment to give way. The German captain and
the ship's main and second engineers panic and abandon ship-- and Jim jumps
after them. Subsequently, the ship does not sink and Jim faces an Inquiry
(in Bombay?) about their cowardly actions. Captian Brierly, one of the
examiners, tries to get Jim to escape & later commits suicide (because of
his disillusionment over this breach of the nautical code of honor by "one
of us"?) Jim loses his certification and is tormented with guilt and
hypersensitivity over his cowardice therafter, drifting from job to job,
quitting when his identity is known or exposure threatens. Jim meets Marlow
during the Inquiry and Marlow narrates the remainder of the story, befriends
him, and repeatedly tries to help him get established again in a
non-seagoing position such as a ship's chandler.
Marlow consults with his merchant friend Stein, a naturalist and butterfly
collector, who identifies Jim as a romantic and offers him the head position
at Patusan (inland from the NW coast of Sumatra, upriver 30 miles), for
which Jim is elated and grateful-- it offers a chance to escape to complete
oblivion (c. 1986). He supplants the snivelling Cornelius, whose mixed-race
wife died leaving a step-daughter. Jim falls in love with her and calls her
Jewel, takes her as his common-law wife. Jim encounters warring factions --
the Bugis (immigrants from Celebes) led by Doramin, the followers of the
Rajah Tunku Allang, and followers of Sherif Ali. After Jewel alerts him to
save his life from 4 assassins (who were aided by Cornelius), he plans with
Doramin to attack Sherif Ali's stockade. After this attack, his power and
authority are unchallenged and he becomes Tuan Jim ("Lord" Jim), acting as
de facto governor and judge and regarded as all-wise and invincible. He is
close friends with Doramin's son, Dain Waris, with whom he led the attack on
Sherif Ali's stockade. Marlow visits with him two years after his arrival
(c. 1988) and feels encouraged that Jim is finding a more satisfying
existence for himself despite his obvious ongoing torment.
But Cornelius is resentful as is the displaced Rajah. The pirate "Gentleman
Brown" arrives (c. 1889) in Patusan desperately searching for food to steal,
fleeing the Spanish whose schooner he has stolen. Jim negotiates with Brown
(who has a "satanic gift ... for finding out the best and the weakest spot
in his victims"), and Brown implies a type of common guilt between the
two- - this induces Jim to allow them safe conduct back down the river,
despite his previous attack on the village and wanton killing of one
villager, apparently because of Jim's need to get them out of his sight.
Brown subsequently takes revenge on the villagers waiting further down
river, killing many including Dian Waris. This action disillusions the
villagers faith in Jim's truthfulness amd justness and, despite the pleas of
his wife, he presents himself to Dormain for penance (saying "Time to finish
this")--Doramin shoots and kills him, at last ending Jim's misery.
JOSEPH CONRAD "LORD JIM" (Feltrinelli, 354 pagine, 9,50 euro)
"Volevo, da lettore adolescente, che da Jim presto o  tardi schizzasse fuori
l'eroe o, se proprio non era possibile, che almeno eroicamente si degradasse
fino all'abiezione. La voce implicita di Conrad pareva promettere almeno una
delle due cose, Marlow invece concedeva tutto e il contrario di tutto.
Cos'era, cos'è infine Jim dentro le sue parole? Ciò che a Marlow, e a noi,
pare che di volta in volta lui sia o possa diventare. E' un giovane con
un'anima ancora infantile, che perciò anche da grande non smette,
caparbiamente, di rifugiarsi nel territorio dell'imperfetto ludico,
l'imperfetto con cui i bambini si assegnano i ruoli per cominciare il gioco:
io ero il capitano coraggioso. E' un artista,, a suo modo, la cui immaginosa
irriducibile individualità non si piega all'imperialismo e traveste
eroicamente persino la squallida attività di procacciatore di navi-clienti
per i mercanti di terraferma. E' l'uomo che sa di custodire una scintilla
divina e cocciutamente cerca di farsi riconoscere dio, tornare nel paradiso
terrestre." Domenico Starnone.
basta cercare )))))) :::zan

Joseph Conrad.
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purtroppo non sempre si ha il tempo di leggere tutto,comunque grazi
per l'appunto!vedrņ di leggere tutto Conrad per sopperire alla mia
ignoranza