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"…cheguei a um acordo perfeito com o mundo: em troca do seu barulho dou-lhe o meu silêncio…" (R. Nassar)
"Conrad is our contemporary because ... he writes of the realities in which we live. At bottom, we know the dilemmas we face are not wholly soluble; but we prefer not to dwell on that fact. In order to avoid ethnic and religious enmities interacting with the rising scarcity of oil, water and other necessities, we need a worlwide programme of restraint and conservation; but such a programme is difficult to imagine at the best of times, and impossible while crucial regions of the world are at war. The realistic prospect is that the most we can do is stave off disaster, a task that demands stoicism an fortitude, not the utopian imagination. Which other novelist can school us so well in these forgotten virtues?
Conrad's greatness is that he brings us back to our actual life. The callow, rationalistic philosophies of the twentieth century, promising world peace and a universal civilization, are poor guides to a time in which war, terror and empire have returned. It falls to a novelist without much faith in the power of reason to enlighten us how to live reasonably in these circunstances. As to ideologues of the end of history, prophets of a new world united under the sign of the market, their day is done."
[John Gray, Gray's Anatomy, Allen Lane, 2009, p. 390]