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by Joseph Conrad (Author) "ONLY the young have such moments ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Amereon Ltd (Jun 1940)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0848802578
  • ISBN-13: 978-0848802578
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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'A sudden passion of anxious impatience rushed through my veins and gave me such a sense of the intensity of existence as I have never felt before or since.' link title to catalogue entry](exact date?)Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain. This is indeed a work full of 'sudden passions', in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to 'stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience'. A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The Shadow-Line investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counterpoints the tale's seemingly conventional surface. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and evocative, 4 July 2007
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This review is from: The Shadow Line: A Confession (Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)
I prefer Conrad's short pieces to his long pieces. This, one of his very best short pieces, is similar in theme to his best long piece, Lord Jim. In this late, short work, Conrad seemed to leave behind his cacophony of words that, for example, Nostromo and the The Secret Agent suffer from. The writing is simpler, less wordy and more evocative than much of Conrad's. You can really breeze through The Shadow Line, which is something that can be said of very few Conrad works.

The story, too, is exciting and poignant. A young man is appointed to his first command and has to take his ship the 800 miles from Bangkok to Singapore, but the voyage is 'cursed' by plague and calm weather. There are hints of the supernatural, and an underlying metaphor of war (WW1 was raging while the book was being written).

The Shadow Line's opening 'youth', newly appointed to his first command, may be an old man's idea of youth - brash, rude, arrogant and ignorant (see Murakami's Kafka on the shore for another old man's, quite different, idea of youth), but it's an attractive, charismatic idea nonetheless. The character's development, through 'the shadow line', into maturity, is completely convincing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite refreshing, 30 Jun 2006
This review is from: The Shadow-Line: A Confession (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
Style - 4/5
Plot - 4/5
Readability - 3/5

One of the things that struck me about this particular story was the way style of the writing reflected the situation (read it to see what I mean, and it's not often I'll say that about one of JC's books!). The other thing that struck me about this story was that there is much more scenic variety than in most of the other JC stories I've read, which tend to focus on a very limited geographical area. I also liked the nice touch of superstition/ghost story that creeps in.
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