Nostromo | Characters
Although it has many protagonists, this is a novel without heroes. Nostromo, whose story as the savior of the fleeing dictator opens the action of the novel and whose death closes the work, is a solitary and independent Italian in self-imposed exile working for the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company whose downfall begins when he must share the work of hiding the silver with Martin Decoud and whose death is a direct consequence of abandoning his solitude by falling in love. Decoud is the skeptical journalist back from Paris who, for the love of Antonia Avellanos, moves from safe...
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