Lord Jim | Religion in Lord Jim
Poquette holds a bachelor’s degree in English and specializes in writing about literature. In the following essay, Poquette discusses the religious qualities of Conrad’s novel, Lord Jim.
In his 1982 book, Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels, J. Hillis Miller echoes the same belief that many critics have held since the first publication of Lord Jim in 1900. Says Miller, the book "reveals itself to be a work which raises questions rather than answering them. The fact that it contains its own interpretations does not make it easier to understand." The enigmatic quality of Conrad's difficult book, found both in its complex narrative structure and in its capacity for yielding several conflicting interpretations, is inevitably part of any discussion...
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