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"Thus to this man, sobered by the victorious issue of a duel, life appeared robbed of its charm, simply because it was no longer menaced." - Joseph Conra
"Thus to this man, sobered by the victorious issue of a duel, life appeared robbed of its charm, simply because it was no longer menaced." - Joseph Conrad, The Duel (aka The Point of Honor) [image] Based loosely on the lives of two French calvary officers (Hussars: Dupont and Fournier-Sarlovèze) during the Napoleonic wars who over the course of 19 years fought 30 duels*, Conrad builds this novella into a manhood, honor, etc. It also shows a bit how ridiculous men, honor, and war often are. And god help us when they all get together. The book was made in 1977 into a pretty good movie by Ridley Scott (his first). Recently my wife told me she remembers vividly being a young kid (maybe 5) and watching this movie with her dad (a calvary officer, oddly) and still remembers it having great uniforms and having the basic plot of duel + talking + duel + talking + duel + kissing + duel. Story checks out. It wasn't my favorite Conrad, but a 3-star Conrad is a classic almost anywhere else. * I know MANY people who haven't read 30 books in 19 years, so this seems almost absurd.
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avg rating 3.75
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“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all” ― Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, The Nose [image]Vol N° 46 of my Penguin
“Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all” ― Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, The Nose [image]Vol N° 46 of my Penguin Little Black Classics Box Set . This volume contains Gogol's short story/novella "The Nose" published in 1836, and written while Gogol was living in St. Petersburg. Gogol was Kafka before Kafka. He is King Missle's "Detachable Penis" before King Missle was a Missle or a King. He is Dali before Dali. His writing is surreal, funny, cheeky, and amazing. It was modern in the 1836 and feels contemporary 180+ years after originally written. Gogol was doing stuff that would take the rest of the world 100 years to catch up to (perhaps not Swift or Sterne). He was surreal in 1836.
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date pub Jul 01, 1838
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