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THE IDIOTS

BY JOSEPH CONRAD

We are at the beginning of a new era which will be marked by a greater fraternization between nations. The need to know and understand one another will be felt more and more. It follows that the study of foreign languages is assuming to-day a capital importance.

All those who wish to make acquaintance with the speech of their neighbours, or who have allowed their former knowledge to grow rusty, will welcome this series of texts, which will enable them, independently of bulky dictionaries, to devote to language study the moments of leisure which offer themselves in the course of the day.

The texts have been selected from the double point of view of their literary worth and of the usefulness of their vocabulary; in the translations, also, the endeavour has been to unite qualities of style with strict fidelity to the original.

In the Revue des Deux Mondes of October 1st, 1919, Mr L. Gillet, in the course of an appreciation of Mr Joseph Conrad’s Arrow of Gold, writes as follows:

“What is original and characteristic in the author of the Tales of Unrest, what constitutes the permanent basis of his art, what we are always brought back to, when he is under discussion, is the sense of mystery.

“His characters, though quivering with life, nearly always give us the impression that they are only half known to us; now and again they surprise us by gestures, feelings, which do not agree with what we know of their personality: it is as though a second character, unknown to themselves, suddenly acted in their stead; as though in the middle of a play the prompter were suddenly moved to modify the text and to alter the parts. There is always, in Mr Conrad’s heroes, a secret, the key to which is withheld from us; they come and go, and suddenly a power different from themselves takes their place, and makes them commit strange and unlooked-for actions.

“These beings

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