Tragic moral paradoxes

In this scholarly book, Dr A. Ayuk raises issues of existential concerns in Conrad's major fiction. In an age in which science and technology soared with success, it produced as its antithesis a tragic and complex humanity which this book clearly and coherently examines. Through close textual analysis, Ayuk brings out Conrad's paradoxes in his portrayal of human experience : the struggle between individual ego and societal mores, guilt and conscience and loyalty betrayed.

Joseph Conrad's Tragic Moral Paradoxes is a refreshing interpretation of Conrad's works, a major contribution to not only the novelist's moral and philosophical vision of man in the early 20th century but also the psycho-complexity of human experience of our day.