PARALLEL CAPTURES – Lord Jim and Lawrence of Arabia
Häftad bok. Falcon Books. 1997. 44 sidor.
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Explores the parallels of word choice between the capture and escape episode in Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim and the capture, torture and escape episode in Deraa in Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom.
"Revealing Little Book! – This monograph, Parallel Captures, is dense with revelations, despite its brevity.
• It shows, first and foremost, that T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") borrowed many words and phrases from Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim when writing his own work, Seven Pillars of Wisdom - in particular when writing his famous, or infamous, Deraa chapter (chapter 80) involving a capture and torture by the Turks at Deraa during the First World War.
• Most of the words that Lawrence borrowed from Lord Jim occur, intriguingly, in a capture episode in that work. Lawrence demonstrably read Lord Jim in early 1919 when he was first drafting Seven Pillars, and kept that copy of the novel throughout his life.
• After first detailing several dozen specific similarities of vocabulary between the capture episodes in Lord Jim and Seven Pillars, the author then reviews at length the earlier findings of several literary experts on Lawrence's connections to Conrad. Those connections, though little known, were considerable.
• Next, the author reveals other apparent echoes or borrowings by Lawrence in his Deraa chapter, for example, from J.E. Flecker, and perhaps Epictetus."
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