Il Conde | Techniques
Conrad's chief technical device is the employment of a detached but observant narrator who provides two contrasting pictures of the count—first, as a self-possessed elderly gentleman of natural tastes and moderate appetites, and then as a shaken victim of the cavalier's robbery and violation of his personal self-esteem. The unnamed narrator is both sympathetic and objective in his portrait of the count, and he intrudes his own reactions into the story much less than Conrad's more famous first person narrator, Marlow.
A less obvious demonstration of technical literary skill may...
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