Frank Muller Narrator

From these slim details Conrad builds one of the great adventure novels of our language, and
creates a most engaging central character: Nostromo, the picturesque man of action and popular
hero, who lives to be well-spoken of by the citizens of Costaguana, the mythical South American
banana republic where the story takes place.

Around this figure, Conrad spins a story of revolution, politics and racial conflict as
complex as Nostromo, the man whose greatest enemy is himself. Heading the Gould Concession, the
imperialistic silver mine which runs the country's economy, is the somewhat idealistic Englishman
Charles Gould, and his American financier, Holroyd, who sees the slave economy as a higher form
of social Darwinism, "a pure form of Christianity." Opposing Gould is the cynical Frenchman,
Martin Decoud, who claims to believe in nothing but "the truth of his sensations."

Nostromo's opposite is the outcast Dr. Monygham, a man of "unsound" reputation and a shady past.
Observing the interplay of these great characters is the placid, unimaginative merchant seaman,
Capt. "Fussy Joe" Mitchell, and when "The Revolution" comes to Costaguana, it is Capt. Mitchell
who is the best eyewitness and judge of its success.

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