Joseph Conrad, n.All

Joseph Conrad is the wreck of Robert Louis Stevenson floating about on the slip-slop of Henry James.

Joseph Conrad is a writer whom reading is like gargling with broken glass.

Joseph Conrad spent a day finding the mot Juste: then killed it.

Joseph Conrad did not speak English until he was in his twenties.

Joseph Conrad is a poor writer with a souvenir shop style, and bottled ships, and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches.