Topics

• Heart of Darkness: depiction of colonial atrocities in Central Africa -> Conrad potrays the African natives as mysterious, primitive, and almost inhuman

A portrait of the artist as a young man:

• bullied as a child (shy, socially awkward)

• with regard to language: estrangement -> language = cited, borrowed, second-hand

  • Joseph Conrad: Polish

  • James Joyce: Irish

  • Yeats: Irish

  • Beckett: French

• Lord of the Rings

• Things Fall Apart (Achebe -> Yeats?)