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" You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence. You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something— and you can't.... "
Youth: And Two Other Stories - Página 4
por Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 339 páginas
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The Works of Joseph Conrad, Volumen5

Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 440 páginas
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. " It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my...
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Complete Works, Volumen16

Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 360 páginas
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered ft for the illustration of life, that might stand for...yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't. Not from any fault of yours. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 páginas
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...— not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. "It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my...
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Short Story Writing

Mary Burchard Orvis - 1928 - 314 páginas
...strengthening a story. Conrad used it in "Youth" : "You fellows know those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." Thornton Wilder used it in his beautiful and outstanding novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A priest...
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T ...

Robert Charles Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1958 - 342 páginas
...Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me — and into my thoughts."...
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays Collected in Memory of James T ...

Robert C. Rathburn, Martin Steinmann - 1967 - 340 páginas
...kernel—Marlow's principal symbol, aside from the forest, is the voyage, that, he says in "Youth," seems "ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." His trip up the Congo "seemed to throw a kind of light on everything about me—and into my thoughts."...
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Hemingway, the Writer as Artist

Carlos Baker - 1972 - 464 páginas
...know," says Marlow, beginning his account of the Judea, "there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...something — and you can't. Not from any fault of yours." If it is so with the Judea, bound for Bangkok, do or die, it is so with Santiago of Havana, bound for...
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Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern Discourse

David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan - 1991 - 368 páginas
...shared values concerning adventures at sea: You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...trying to accomplish something — and you can't. You simply can do nothing, neither great nor little — not a thing in the world. (3-4) Marlow affirms...
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The Columbia History of the British Novel

John Richetti, John Bender, Deirdre David, Michael Seidel - 1994 - 1094 páginas
...He wishes to believe that his first journey to the East was one of "those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for a symbol of existence." As Marlow recalls his great adventure, he discovers that, in spite of the voyage's failure, it not...
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Heart of Darkness and Other Stories

Joseph Conrad - 1995 - 244 páginas
...remember best is my first voyage there. You fellows know there are those voyages that seem ordered for the illustration of life, that might stand for...world - not even marry an old maid, or get a wretched 6oo-ton cargo of coal to its port of destination. 'It was altogether a memorable affair. It was my...
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