The best literary criticism rubs away the veneer of familiarity that can mummify even the freshest and most original works of imagination. Yael Levin accomplishes this and more in Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism...an erudite, thoughtful, demanding, and disruptive book that I recommend to every Conrad reader.
Yael Levin is associate professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and vice-president of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle of Conrad's Novels (2008) and winner of the Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar award. Her work on Conrad, Samuel Beckett, modernism, postmodernism, disability, narratology and the subject has been published in; inter alia, Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of
Beckett Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Conradian, Conradiana, Estudios Irlandeses and Partial Answers.