"Forget, and be at peace! ": The Double Betrayal in Conrad's "Karain: A Memory"

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• Joseph Conrad’s “Karain: A Memory” （1897） is frequently discussed as a study of confrontation between the West and the East. However, Bruce Johnson, in his article“Conrad’s ‘Karain’ and Lord Jim” （1963）, states that “there are many details in the story designed to bring Karain and the Englishmen together in the same illusion-haunted predicament.”This paper examines the illusion of friendship between Karain and Pata Matara and the illusion of friendship between the unnamed English frame narrator and Karain in relation to phantoms, and argues that “Karain: A Memory” can be read as a study of how emotional vulnerability leads to betrayal of friendship. The two characters,irrelevant to their cultural difference, find themselves caught “in the same illusion-haunted predicament.”

• 2009-03-15

著者

• 奥田 洋子

  跡見学園女子大学文学部人文学科

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