Nostromo continues Conrad’s ‘major period’ with a political novel of terrorism and terrorists that resonates to this day. Works such as Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent, are central to the modernist canon, and all have attracted significant critical and scholarly attention. Joseph Conrad is widely considered one of the most important novelists of the 20th century. The first of Conrad’s major political novels, Nostromo depicts the effects of repeated revolution in a fictional South American state under the growing influence of the United States of America in global economics and politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unique in the history of Conrad’s works, the characters and world of Nostromo are drawn primarily from Conrad’s extensive reading rather than personal experience. Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo (1904) is widely considered Conrad’s modernist masterpiece.
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