Nostromo (French Edition)

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Nostromo and Decoud manage to save the silver by putting the lighter ashore on Great Isabel. Decoud and the silver are deposited on the deserted island of Great Isabel in the expansive bay off Sulaco, while Nostromo scuttles the lighter and manages to swim back to shore undetected. Back in Sulaco, Nostromo's power and fame continues to grow as he daringly rides over the mountains to summon the army which ultimately saves Sulaco's powerful leaders from the revolutionaries and ushers in the independent state of Sulaco.

In the meantime, left alone on the deserted island, Decoud eventually loses his mind. He takes the small lifeboat out to sea and there shoots himself, after first weighing his body down with some of the silver ingots so that he would sink into the sea. His exploits during the revolution do not bring Nostromo the fame he had hoped for, and he feels slighted and used. Feeling that he has risked his life for nothing, he is consumed by resentment, which leads to his corruption and ultimate destruction, for he has kept secret the true fate of the silver after all others believed it lost at sea.

He finds himself becoming a slave of the silver and its secret, even as he slowly recovers it ingot by ingot during nighttime trips to Great Isabel. The fate of Decoud is a mystery to Nostromo, which combined with the fact of the missing silver ingots only adds to his paranoia. Eventually a lighthouse is constructed on Great Isabel, threatening Nostromo's ability to recover the treasure in secret. The ever resourceful Nostromo manages to have a close acquaintance, the widower Giorgio Viola, named as its keeper.

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Nostromo is in love with Giorgio's younger daughter, but ultimately becomes engaged to his elder daughter Linda. One night while attempting to recover more of the silver, Nostromo is shot and killed, mistaken for a trespasser by old Giorgio. Lee and starring George O'Brien. It is now a lost film. In , a television adaptation Nostromo was produced.

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Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. Having grown up in Latin America, I'd been wanting to read this novel for quite some time, but other Conrad books kept falling into my hands before this one did. It is evident from the very first pages that the author had found a story, a topic, a series of themes, and a tone that allowed him to produce the highest expression of his narrative art. The narrator relates the history of the mine, which first haunted Charles's father and now absorbs the attention of the inheritor.

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It's almost as if the mine were a person with a will of its own. Giorgio Viola, a Romantic freedom fighter who belonged to the ranks of Garibaldi, is another important figure in this first part, and the reader is allowed a glimpse of Gian' Battista Fidanza, the head longshoreman of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, the man the locals call Nostromo. As in most traditional narratives, the first part of the novel establishes the setting and states the problem.

It becomes clear from the beginning that as the administrator of a silver mine, it is Charles Gould, and not the local political authorities, who actually holds power in Sulaco. This situation inevitably causes resentment among the local population. The second part of the novel, "The Isabels," in which the main conflict takes shape, focuses on Antonia Avellanos the daughter of one of Charles Gould's local friends and the man who loves her, the journalist Martin Decoud.

Antonia is political, and wants the best for the people of Sulaco; Decoud is not a patriot, he considers himself above all that, and as civil strife sets in he wants to leave Costaguana with the lady he loves. As Gould and Decoud realize that their interests material in the first case, and romantic in the second are in danger, they devise a plan to protect these interests and enlist the help of Nostromo, who may be the only man capable of carrying out the plan. The novel's third part, "The Lighthouse," presents the resolution of the conflict and describes the fates of the characters involved.

Conrad built the novel around the story of a man who, taking advantage of a local revolution, managed to escape with a lighter a flat-bottomed barge loaded with silver. Like Henry James, Conrad had the ability to construct entire stories starting from a brief real-life anecdote.

Latin America is shown as a highly unstable region, but it is as much a land of ideals and self-sacrifice as it is one of corruption. While the people want to be free and self-sufficient, those in power sell the country's valuable resources to foreign interests so as to increase their personal wealth and remain in power. Given this situation, revolution becomes inevitable. Nostromo himself does not emerge as a key figure until the second half of the novel, but towards the end it becomes clear why the story bears his name as its title.

Regarding the female characters, critics have observed that Conrad's women are always beautiful and pure.