Joseph Conrad

Lord Jim (Annotated) Joseph Conrad

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This is the story of a Fall, an Atonement, and a Purification, a Second Chance. Jim is a sailor who bears a stain on his past: he has committed an act of cowardice, he has supported the official abandonment of a ship that seemed doomed to sink, the Patna, full of Muslim pilgrims. (Conrad is based on true events: the story of the Jeddah steam, which took place in the summer of 1880). The ship did not sink, and the culprits for abandonment were tried. Jim, unlike the others, seeks punishment to ease his guilt. But the facts leave their mark on him; you cannot forget them. Since then Jim lives a wandering life, trying to escape the guilty memory and the somber gaze of men. Joseph Conrad, a writer of Polish origin, a British by adoption, a sailor during his youth and a diver of the human soul in his many stories and novels, presents us with this story, where his different experiences emerge in the Malay archipelago, which he traveled multiple times in his travels. . The first part of the work consists of the more or less indirect account of the events that gave rise to the Fall and the subsequent Atonement: the abandonment of Patna and its consequences; the trial, to which Jim presents himself voluntarily; their degradation by court opinion;