Described as "the average pilgrim" a "wanderer," and "a Buddha preaching in European clothes," Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad’s Youth (1898), Heart of
Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Chance (1912). Conrad’s Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad’s most celebrated
creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth, or a misguided liar?
Offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow’s essence is located in his constantly shifting position and that the emergence of
meaning in his stories is bound up with the process of his storytelling.
