A Book of Prefaces (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512126860)

"Under all his stories there ebbs and flows a kind of tempered melancholy, a sense of seeking and not finding...." I take the words from a little book on Joseph Conrad by Wilson Follett, privately printed, and now, I believe, out of print. They define both the mood of the stories as works of art and their burden and direction as criticisms of life. Like Dreiser, Conrad is forever fascinated by the "immense indifference of things," the tragic vanity of the blind groping that we call aspiration, the profound meaninglessness of life-fascinated, and left wondering.

Author: H. L. Mencken
ISBN-10: 1512126861
ISBN-13: 9781512126860
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2015
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d