Paul and the Pardoner in Conrad's 'Victory'
- Author / Editor
- Purdy, Dwight H.
Paul and the Pardoner in Conrad's 'Victory'
- Published
- Texas Studies in Literature and Language 23 (1981): 197-213.
- Description
- Surveys Joseph Conrad's allusions to Chaucer and to the Bible, and argues that in the novel "Victory" Conrad expresses his "sense of radical modern otherness." In Conrad's novel, "Jones's sexual anomaly mirrors a spiritual malaise," as does the Pardoner's, and allusions to the Pardoner and his tale "voice Conrad's balked desire for sacred meaning," even while "parodic Pauline allusions" make such yearning a "mask for despair."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Pardoner and His Tale