Contexts, Genres, and Transformations: Conradesque Novels by Robert Silverberg and Henri Bosco

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This chapter is a study in artistic metamorphoses. It considers the influence of Conrad on the work of the ProvenÃ§al novelist, poet, and essayist Henri Bosco (1888â1976), and in turn the adaptation of Boscoâs LâEnfant et la riviÃ¨re (ostensibly a book for children) into a bande dessinÃ©e (graphic novel) by the contemporary artist Xavier Coste (b. 1989). Thanks to John Princeâs interview in 1974 we know that, when he encountered the three stories in Youth in the middle 1920s, Henri Bosco was swept away by Conradâs artistry: âCâest une oeuvre qui mâa bouleversÃ©.â He was inspired as well as astounded: âIl a beaucoup marquÃ© mon Åuvre. Jâai rÃªvÃ© dâetre le Conrad de la littÃ©rature franÃ§aiseâ. With the outstanding exception of Michel Arouimi, not much has been written on Boscoâs Conradian inheritance, and in the anglophone world Bosco himself has attracted far less attention than his work deserves. That position may now be changing with the appearance of Malicroix in English. In that formidable novel, one can see such Conradian motifs and situations as fear, isolation, camaraderie, initiation, the power and unpredictability of water, and an acute sense of scale from the microscopic to the macroscopic. As it happens, the affinities between these authors may well reinforce the recent turn in Conrad studies towards the ecological and the catastrophic, and the local. Xavier Costeâs rendering of LâEnfant et la riviÃ¨re rounds off the chapter. Costeâs handling of time, space, landscape, colour, and event is impressive. Though there is no direct link to Conradâs fiction, Conrad lingers as a spectral presence.

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Conradâs Presence in Contemporary Culture

Adaptations and Appropriations

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Part 1 What Is Conrad the Name Of?

Part 2 Showing: Graphic and Filmic Metamorphoses

Part 3 Telling: Literary Affiliations and Appropriations

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