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Nostromo (or Giovanni Battista Fidanza) – a charismatic Italian seaman who has settled in Sulaco and established a reputation for leadership and daring; as an employee of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, he earns the unofficial title of the "Capataz de Cargadores", or "Head Longshoreman"
- Joseph Conrad
- 1904
Nostromo is a modernist novel about South American politics, capitalism, and revolution, influenced by French realism and Impressionism. The novel explores the relation between moral idealism and material interests through various characters and events, and challenges the notion of progress and evolution.
The USCSS Nostromo, registration number 1809246(09),[3] was a modified Lockmart CM-88B Bison M-Class star freighter owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and commanded by Captain Arthur Dallas, registered out of Panama.[2] The Nostromo operated as a tug, connecting to and pulling loads like a...
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Nostromo, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1904 and considered one of Conrad’s strongest works. Nostromo is a study of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a fictional South American republic. The work anticipates many of the political crises of Third World countries in the 20th.
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Jan 9, 2006 · But Nostromo does not aspire to be a leader in a personal game. He does not want to raise himself above the mass. He is content to feel himself a power—within the People. But mainly Nostromo is what he is because I received the inspiration for him in my early days from a Mediterranean sailor.
Apr 30, 1997 · Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrad’s greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and...
Nostromo is Conrad’s most expansive and ambitious political novel, a story that examines how both societies and individuals are adversely affected by the process of government in...
