Resumo de The Shadow Line

A moment in the life of everyone of we exists in which it notices to find itself to us to a crossroad, on a border that, in way more rather clearly, divides a past from a future, a life that cannot more is to us from an other anchor to come here but that it is perceived, by now, like something of inevitable. On this border, to cospetto of this ?line of shadow?, the protagonist of the short novel of Conrad, dated 1917 finds itself. It is an official of merchant marine to which he comes entrusted the first commando: to transport one ship with crew and according to already ready official to sail towards a port of the Asian south-east. After little days of navigation, but, a pernicious tropical fever begins to diffuse itself between the crew that is not succeeded to tame with the medicinal presents to edge. To that a how much mysterious calm joins unusual that will hold the ship nailed in one situation of stall for several weeks, preventing to the commander to berth in a whichever port in order to ask attendance. Here that, from real travel, the vicissitude assumes the metaforici contours of existential travel. Finding itself difronte to difficulty never faced before from the young person commander, the humanity, the sacrifice spirit but also inertia of the men of the crew who seem, to a sure point, not to believe more in the dumb salvation and s'abbandonano in the hands of a destiny beffardo, the force of the Nature that evidences the smallness of the human species quand'essa is in its nanny and that allucinata atmosphere in which the ship she sinks as she was charmed from the far song of Sirene. All that transforms this work of Conrad in something of other regarding the usual novel of adventure. All the states of mind will cross our protagonist: the fear, the hope, the mercy and that sense of fratellanza that often joins the men when it renders them pawns of a same destiny. When, finally, the ship succeeds to berth in a port being able therefore to receive medical aid, our commander will notice of blow that its life will not be, from lì in ahead, plus the same one.
account will become, that is, than the made experience, its cargo of humanity and greater knowledge of himself, of the own limits but also of the own abilities, it has marked in order always the passage to one stage of ?mature? life and responsible, letting to the shoulders the frivolezza and that light spensieratezza of the juvenile years.

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