HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AS SURVIVAL STRATEGIES IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S FICTION
HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS AS SURVIVAL STRATEGIES IN JOSEPH CONRAD'S FICTION

Summary/Abstract: This study presents interpersonal relationships as characters' strategies of survival in Conrad's fiction. Since he views nature as generally hostile to men, regarded as intruders, when facing reality and nature, they need to be shielded by interindividual ties. As a social being, man lives in a community, whose cell is the family, which is meant to be a strategy of survival. Conrad's familial relationships have typical features. At least as important as family ties are friendship/ mentorship/ foster parenthood relations and "doubles". For those spending their lives on ships, the family is replaced by the crew as a biome in the heterotopia of the ship.

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