![]() ![]() This is because Conrad’s scepticism and awareness of cruelty soften the Rortyian tendency towards rhetorical utopianism. Additionally, I suggest that the conversation between Rorty and Conrad produces an outcome more convincing than that communicated by their voices in isolation. Furthermore, I suggest that Marlow is an effective vehicle for Rorty’s thought, because his narratives not only communicate a Rortyian ironism founded on contingency and ethnocentrism, but also promote attendance to suffering, the keystone of Rorty’s liberal politics. By putting Conrad in conversation with Richard Rorty, and particularly by considering Marlow as a vehicle for Rorty’s philosophy of liberal ironism, I argue that Marlow is a multifaceted aspect of Conrad’s divided self. ![]() ![]() Joseph Conrad’s narrator Marlow, who features in ‘Youth’ (1898), ‘Heart of Darkness’ (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Chance (1913), has been read as both a mouthpiece for Conrad and a distancing strategy which shields Conrad from some of the questionable elements of these four texts. ![]()
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