Joseph Conrad by Norman Sherry

Author:Norman Sherry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 241950
Publisher: Routledge

84. Conrad’s reply to the Garnet review 1 October 1907

Extract from letter to Edward Garnett (LEG, p. 204). Jack is John Galsworthy.

I only heard from Jack yesterday of your review in the Nation. I sent to the Railway Station today for the No.

It makes a fine reading for an author and no mistake. I am no end proud to see you‘ve spotted my poor old woman. You’ve got a fiendishly penetrating eye for one’s most secret intentions. She is the heroine. And you are appallingly quick in jumping upon a fellow. Yes O! yes my dear Edward—that’s what’s the matter with the estimable Verloc and his wife: ‘the hidden weakness in the springs of impulse’. I was so convinced that something was wrong there that to read your definition has been an immense relief—great enough to be akin to joy. The defect is so profoundly temperamental that to this moment I can’t tell how I went wrong. Of going wrong I was aware even at the time of writing—all the time. You may imagine what a horrible grind it was to keep on going with this suspicion at the back of the head.

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