Ivory Apes and Peacocks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515032694)

In these piping days when fiction plays the handmaid or prophet to various propaganda; when the majority of writers are trying to prove something, or acting as venders of some new-fangled social nostrums; when the insistent drums of the Great God Reclame are bruising human tympani, the figure of Joseph Conrad stands solitary among English novelists as the very ideal of a pure and disinterested artist. Amid the clamour of the market-place a book of his is a sea-shell which pressed to the ear echoes the far-away murmur of the sea; always the sea, either as rigid as a mirror under hard, blue skies or shuddering symphonically up some exotic beach. Conrad is a painter doubled by a psychologist; he is the psychologist of the sea-and that is his chief claim to originality, his Peak of Darien."

Author: James Huneker
ISBN-10: 1515032698
ISBN-13: 9781515032694
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2015
Pages: 196
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.42d