This author was said to “scrutinize your face…as a watchmaker looks into the works of a watch” in a “Personal Remembrance” by an author who collaborated with him on The Nature of a Crime. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author, who collaborated with Ford Madox Ford on The Inheritors. Edward Said, who wrote about this author “and the Fiction of Autobiography,” used this author as the epigraph to Culture and Imperialism.
ANSWER: Joseph Conrad [or Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (The lead-in is from “Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance” by Ford Madox Ford.)
[10e] In his memoir Out of Place, Said compares his long-lost uncle David to an “avatar of Conrad” and this character. In Heart of Darkness, this ivory trader whispers “The horror! The horror!” to Charles Marlow.
ANSWER: Mr. Kurtz
[10m] In Culture and Imperialism, Said uses this novel’s character of Charles Gould to examine how Conrad was both anti-imperialist and imperialist. This novel’s title character smuggles silver from a mine in Costaguana.
ANSWER: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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