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I had the time to see her dull face, red, not with a mantling blush, but as if her flat cheeks had been vigorously slapped, and to take in the squat figure, the scanty, dusty brown hair drawn into a tight knot at the back of the head. She looked quite young. With a distinct catch in her breath, her voice sounded low and timid.
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Julie A. Kaifesh
reviewed Amy Foster on February 02, 2020
Amy Foster
My thanks to my GR Friend Ilse for putting me onto this short story, via the review below:
In some ways it's odd that Conrad gave the title "Amy Foster" to the story. Although she is one of the characters, it's more the tale of Yanko, an east European peasant and sole survivor of an emigrant ship that sinks in the North Sea whilst heading to America. Yanko, (the narrator describes him as "a Carpathian mountaineer") is washed ashore near a coastal village in England. He speaks no English and has no idea where he is. The inward-looking villagers treat him with hostility and suspicion.
It's moving tale of what it is to be cast adrift, and to be isolated and marooned amongst people who are not your own.
Conrad himself was of course an ethnic Pole from what is now Ukraine, who emigrated to Britain and anglicised his name because British people couldn't pronounce his Polish one. Is there perhaps something of Conrad's own life in Yanko's tale?
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