Joseph Conrad as the Modern Teacher of Europe (Tragic Fate of Women in Two Short Stories)
Joseph Conrad as the Modern Teacher of Europe (Tragic Fate of Women in Two Short Stories)

Summary/Abstract: The problem of tragic fate of women, their loneliness in confrontation with violence, is one of the most important issues in contemporary literature. These issues were also close to Joseph Conrad. 2017 marked the 160th anniversary of the birth of this famous writer. It is therefore worth to address these problems in the Jubilarian's works, who like no one else could reach the very core of human loneliness. His collection of short stories Twixt Land and Sea includes the stories of Alice and Freya. The first of them, cold, living in solitude, deprived of feelings, confessed that she did not love anything and anybody. She was then a dead woman, although still alive. Freya died physically. Her fate reminds us that excessive reason while in love always leads to tragedy, well known to ancient writers

• Details
• Contents