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The marvelous Typhoon, translated by Gide

Published in 1904, Nostromo is arguably Joseph Conrad's most powerful, dense and somber novel. It was the culmination of an extraordinary undertaking that cost the novelist more than two years of effort: the invention of an imaginary Latin American republic — Costaguana — complete with its own history, geography, institutions, customs, economic system, social classes,…

“There is nothing to boast of in having it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.” In other words, for there to be the strong, there must first be the weak. The strong man here is Kurtz, an exceptionally gifted adventurer, the fitting product of the West, who has…

Serialized from October 1899 to November 1900 in Blackwood's Magazine, it was published in one volume — in a revised version — at the end of that same year. The French translation appeared only more than twenty years later, when Gallimard finally undertook to publish nearly the whole of Conrad's work, at the instigation of…