The Portable Conrad Review

Like attempts to reconcile Newtonian and quantum physics, most literary attempts to use particularized human characteristics to explain broader societal phenomena are, at best, wrong and, at worst, ideologies. Conrad may be the only author to simultaneously see clearly into the individual psyche and implicitly explain the significance of that characteristic on a grand scale through his explication of it. It seems that the words he uses are created specifically for his sentences, and reading him is redolent of what it would be like to see a young Mike Tyson fight Andre the Giant.