Lord Jim(吉姆老爷)
Joseph Conrad
Author's Note
When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about
that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that
the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writer's
control. One or two discovered internal evidence of the fact, which
seemed to amuse them. They pointed out the limitations of the
narrative form. They argued that no man could have been expected to
talk all that time, and other men to listen so long. It was not,
they said, very credible.
After thinking it over for something like sixteen years, I am
not so sure about that. Men have been known, both in the tropics
and in the temperate zone, to sit up half the night 'swapping
yarns'. This, however, is but one yarn, yet with interruptions
affording some measure of relief; and in regard to th…