Il Conde (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- First Published: 1908
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early 1900's
- Setting: Naples, Italy
- Principal Characters: Il Conde (the Count), The narrator
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Suicide, Crime or criminals, Exile or expatriates, Robbery or robbers, Revenge, Hotels, motels, or inns, Sick persons, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Italy or Italians, Diseases
- Locales: Naples, Italy
The Story
Set in Naples, Italy, early in the 1900's, “Il Conde” is a tale told by an anonymous narrator about his brief companionship with a northern European aristocrat whom he knows only as the Count. Like the narrator himself, the Count emerges as a man of the world and a person distinguished by cultivated tastes, impeccable manners, and fastidious sensibilities.
The narrator meets the Count while both are viewing art works in Naples's National Museum. After discovering that they both are guests in the same quietly refined Neapolitan hotel, they spend three...
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