The Political Novel Seminar 2: Edwin Frank on Joseph Conrad

From September through November, Edwin Frank, editor of New York Review Books and author of Stranger than Fiction: The Lives of the Twentieth Century Novel, will lead a new three-part webinar series on the political novel. Join Frank in an investigation of the visions of politics reflected in the lives and works of Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, and Ursula K. Le Guin. 

Seminar Two: Edwin Frank on Joseph Conrad (Oct. 6–27)

Politics fascinated and appalled Joseph Conrad, the child of Polish revolutionaries and later a ship captain. For him, it was the defining blight of the modern world, whose dark peripheries he mapped in his greatest works, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, and The Secret Agent. In the second seminar in our Political Novel series, we will focus on these three novels as expressions of Conrad's anti-political vision.

Seminar two is four one-hour sessions: October 6, 13, 20, 27. All sessions will start at 7pm EDT.