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The secretary of an American-born author has a lesbian affair with the secretary of this author in Cynthia Ozick’s story “Dictation.” In a story by this author, a nearby explosion launches the narrator in a parabolic arc before he is helped by the ship Sommerville, which causes another fire. The protagonist of a story by this author rescues his “second self,” a man who had strangled a crewmate during a storm. This author’s novel Chance is narrated by the same character who narrates the story “Youth” and a novel (10[2])partly set in Patusan. In a novella by this author of “The Secret Sharer,” (10[1])the narrator sits aboard the Nellie and recounts the time when he searched (10[1])for Kurtz in the Congo. For 10 points, Charles Marlow narrates what author’s novels Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (The American-born author in Ozick’s story is Henry James.)
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