![]() ![]() The moral imagination, as Panichas understands it, is the sine qua non of a long rhetorical tradition extending from Aristotle and Horace through Sidney and Johnson to the leaders of the New Humanism, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. Panichas illuminates the novels’ sympathy for “common mortals” who “must endure,” as Conrad put it, “the load of gifts from heaven: the curse of facts and the blessings of illusions, the bitterness of wisdom and the deceptive consolation of folly.” In fine, Panichas attempts to renew interest in Conrad’s moral imagination. He endeavors to explain Conrad’s response in these fictions to man’s perpetual struggle against the constraints of the human condition. Panichas, the longtime editor of Modern Age, examines seven novels of Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim, Under Western Eyes, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, Chance, Victory, and The Rover. In his 2005 critical achievement, George A. Panichas (165 pages, Mercer University Press, 2005) Joseph Conrad: His Moral Vision, by George A. ![]() For Joseph Conrad, the struggle between good and evil in the human soul was a permanent reality, a reality one might prefer to avoid, or try to sublimate, but one that nobody who has lived long can absolutely deny. ![]()
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