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- Nostromo is an Italian expatriate who has risen to his position through his bravery and daring exploits. ("Nostromo" is Italian for "shipmate" or "boatswain", but the name could also be considered a corruption of the Italian phrase "nostro uomo" or "nostr'uomo", meaning "our man").
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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
Yet Nostromo is a challenging and multi-layered novel, demanding much of its readers, even when compared with the high demand Conrad places on his other fiction. What is Nostromo about, and how should we analyse this classic modernist novel about South American mining, capitalism, and revolution?
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 its...
Nostromo is set in the fictitious country of Costaguana, where Charles Gould has returned from England to run a silver mine. There is a revolution and the dictator, President Ribiera, is forced to flee the country, leading to civil war.
Nostromo is Conrad's ultimately impressionistic novel, modeled upon his earlier experiment with form in Lord Jim (1900). Here the chronology is jumbled as he introduces characters whose...
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.
