Joseph Conrad and Kazuo Ishiguro. From moral enclaves to moral restoration under modernist/postmodern eyes - Andreea Finichiu

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A period of approximately 60 years separates Conrad's last complete novel (The Rover, 1924) from Ishiguro's first (A Pale View of Hills, 1982). And yet, despite spanning an expanse of moral agnosticism, through modernist and postmodern/contemporary times, respectively, their literary work can be considered to renegotiate what has sedimented into our collective conscious as standards of morality and, ultimately, humanity. They are, for this reason, enclaves - they team up across decades to dare d...