FORD MADOX

La colaboración literaria entre Joseph Conrad y Ford Madox Ford que «hicieron para transformar la prosa inglesa lo que Flaubert había hecho para cambiar la prosa francesa», en opinión de Ezra Pound dio como fruto tres novelas: Los herederos (1901), La aventura (1903) y La naturaleza de un crimen (1923). La idea de Los herederos surgió en 1898,...

THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy-or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in a...