Floating Of Impression And Collage Of Fragment

Joseph Conrad is the famous modern novelist, who was born in Poland and became an Englishman when he was an adult. He is entitled one of the most outstanding English novelists in 20th century by the western critics. During his whole life, he composed a large amount of novels, collections of short stories and prose. Living in a transitional period, Conrad made every effort to reflect the new reality with the new art form, which gave his works the new art characteristics. This article aims to display the art characteristics of Conrad's novels. A. Excellent Impressionistic Writing Skills In Conrad' s opinion, the glamour of the novel consists in communicating the impression by the feeling, otherwise the novelist will not find the mysterious source of human' s affection. As a result, he opposed to tell the story and introduce the character on time order, seldom attached his own thought to his readers by simple art skills and insisted on catching the strong impression of a person in an instance and completing the impression by combining relative description. Conrad's novels were like the impressionistic oil paintings. They always present to readers the strong impressions, irrelative stories and the conjectures of all kinds of people. Conrad did not made any conclusion to his characters but provide impressions ——the impression of the omniscient narrator's and other narrator's. In reading process, along with the accumulation of every kind of accidental affairs and the development of the impression, the readers were demand continuously to revise the initial guess in order to get a more accurate result . In "Heart of Darkness", the process of Marlow's recognition on Kurtz was a process to induce the impressions obtained by all kinds of ways. "Lord Jim"was also a typical impressionistic novel. There was no coherent narrative clue in this novel, instead there were only some seemingly isolated and eccentric affairs. Conrad revealed the nature of his hero vividly and deeply by displaying his complex mental movement through disordered and trifling details. The comment in 'Lord Jim'was also impressionistic and ambiguous. B. Symbolic Arts Full of Implication Deeply influenced by the Symbolism, Conrad considered that in order to become the authentic art, the novel must be able to stimulate human's association, touch their personalities and feelings and create a certain kind of atmosphere suitable for certain affection and spirit by means of using symbolic techniques. The symbol in Conrad's novels was not only a kind of expressive technique, but also a whole series of literary conception and a method to master and describe the world. His symbol came from his special mental experiences and the objects of his symbol were human's innermost world and the most essential thing hidden behind the world. Conrad's symbolic language was not explicit, but obscure, implicative, diversified and compound. Conrad always bestowed the symbolic meanings to the scenes, the people and the articles in his novels by consistently using the contrast of black and white, bright objects and dark background. C. The Original and Unique Narrative Skills...