Fiction on Nature

Moslem Zolfagharkhani

Abstract


Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’ is significant and considerable in that it is a novella which is built on the author’s personal experiences along with drawing on the interaction between Man and Nature. Conrad’s tenth story ‘Youth’ revolves round Marlow who is both a narrator and a central character. He undertakes a sea journey in which the adolescent Marlow becomes a man. ‘Youth’ is a story of discovery and development, of revelation and revolution vis-à-vis man and nature and their sociality. Conrad delineates this sociality through the English people and the sea. The direct engagement of natural elements, water and wind, as adversaries to man is revealed by the author. This engagement makes man not just an object of more or less accidental fate, but a protagonist, a fighter in the battles of his existence. What kind of a community gets surfaced in ‘Youth’ vis-à-vis Sea? Marlow starts his narrative by addressing five people at the beginning of the story. He says “between the five of us there was the strong bond of the sea, and also the fellowship of the craft” (69). Such beginning speeches direct us to get involved in a fiction which is a mirror of man and nature community.

Keywords: Fiction; Joseph Conrad; ‘Youth’; Man; Nature; Sociality.

Résumé: La «Jeunesse» de Joseph Conrad est importante et considérable en ce qu’elle est une nouvelle qui se construit sur des expériences personnelles de l’auteur ainsi que par le dessin sur l’interaction entre l’homme et la nature. «Jeunesse» dixième étage de Conrad tourne autour de Marlow qui est à la fois un narrateur et un personnage central. Il entreprend un voyage en mer dans lequel l’adolescent Marlow devient un homme. «Jeunesse» est une histoire de la découverte et le développement, de la révélation et la révolution vis-à-vis de l’homme et la nature et leur socialité. Conrad délimite cette socialité par l’intermédiaire du peuple anglais et de la mer. la participation directe des éléments naturels, l’eau et le vent, comme des adversaires à l’homme est mis en évidence par l’auteur. Cet engagement fait de l’homme n’est pas seulement un objet de sort plus ou moins accidentelle, mais un protagoniste, un combattant dans le batailles de son existence. Quel genre d’une communauté se fait surface dans vis-à-vis de «Jeunesse» de la mer? Marlow commence son récit en abordant cinq personnes au début de l’histoire. Il dit: «entre les cinq d’entre nous il y avait la forte discours des obligations de la mer, et aussi la communion de l’artisanat «(69). De commencer ces diriger nous de s’impliquer dans une fiction qui est un miroir de l’homme et de la communauté de la nature.

Mots-clés: Fiction; Joseph Conrad; «Jeunesse»; L’homme; La Nature; La Socialité.


Keywords


Fiction; Joseph Conrad; ‘Youth’; Man; Nature; Sociality



DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120801.1019

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