Conrad
...“voice”. By doing this Conrad was able to take English and make it do thing past writers only dreamed of. His prose had an visualizing effect and a poetic intensity not seen by writers of his time. This was a link to his approaching of the English Language. If modernist writers succeed in making us doubt that we can truly be at home in the world, Conrad can be said to have been the first writer to convey this homelessness in English. Marlow is his most famous narrator form heart of darkness. Marlow is like Conard. Both were both "sea-men". Both went to the congo. Works like Heart of Darkness, written during Queen Victoria's reign, for Watt present "the obdurate incompatibility of the self and the world in which it exists." In book after book, he sets a lone individual into confrontation with the complexities of the m...