Monday, December 18, 2017

The Editor Who Pulled Joseph Conrad From The Slush Pile

He worried it was one of many Far Eastern potboilers in the pile, but then he started to read. "Indeed, the manuscript seemed to challenge many of the conventions of such books: there was a distinctly antiheroic aspect to its main protagonist, the portraits of the natives ran counter to prevailing stereotypes, and the narrative’s mordant undercurrent was entirely unlike superficially similar works."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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