Chance: A Tale in Two Parts

Auteurs

• Joseph Conrad

Paramètres

• 384 pages
• 14 heures de lecture

• 20e siècle
• Classiques
• Fiction
• Littérature britannique
• Thème historique

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Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points and attempt to interpret various episodes in the life of Miss de Barral, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral (though this character is famous in the world of the novel as a criminal, he may, at least at first, have been merely an incompetent banker). Miss de Barral leads a sheltered life while her father is prosperous, then must rely on the generosity of others, who resent her or have agendas for her, before she escapes by marrying one Captain Anthony. Much of the book involves the musing of the various narrators over what she and the Captain expected from this union, and what they actually got from it. When her father is released from prison, he joins them on ship, and the book heads towards its denouement

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• Année de publication: 2022
• Reliure: (rigide)