Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the music critic for the Nation and is the author of numerous books, including Music at the Limits, Musical Elaborations, Beginnings: Intention and Method, and Humanism and Democratic Criticism.

• Foreword, by Andrew N. Rubin Preface List of Abbreviations Part One: Conrad's Letters I. The Claims of Individuality II. Character and the Knitting Machine, 1896-1912 III. The Claims of Fiction, 1896-1912 IV. Worlds at War, 1912-1918 V. The New Order, 1918-1924 Part Two: Conrad's Shorter Fiction VI. The Past and the Present VII. The Craft of the Present VIII. Truth, Idea, and Image IX. The Shadow Line Chronology, 1889-1924 Letter to R. B. Cunninghame Graham, February 8, 1899 Selected Bibliography Notes Index

"Said concentrates on what we may call Conrad's 'house of consciousness'- how that great mind perceived, what its internal complexities and contradictions were, how it turned the shapeless sufferings of the life into the containing constructs of art." -- The Spectator