Joseph Conrad

The Duel Annotated Joseph Conrad

Conrad's brilliantly ironic tale about two officers in Napoleon's Grand Army who, under a futile pretext, fought an on-going series of duels throughout the Napoleanic Wars. Over decades, on every occasion they chanced to satisfy, they fought. Both satiric and deeply sad, this masterful tale treats both the futility of war and therefore the absurdity of false honor, war's necessary accessory.