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"An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrad's second novel, returns to the Malay world of Almayer's Folly (1895). Focusing on the collapse of Western values and morals in a colonial setting, the novel daringly portrays the power of erotic attraction and exposes the venal ambitions behind small- and large-scale political intrigues. The introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career as a writer and traces its origins and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus explain the history of the work's composition and publication, and detail the interventions of Conrad's compositors and editors. There are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations including pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication"-- "Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands (1896) returns to the moral world and thematic concerns of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), and to the South-East Asia of his own experience, as he imaginatively revisited the tropics he had left behind him some eight years previously. In committing himself to the novel's writing, Conrad was also taking farewell of his sea-life. The decision to become a professional writer had evolved slowly, in the same way that what was originally to be a short story transformed itself into a full-length novel about moral crisis and its consequences as Conrad discovered that his materials demanded more ample development. While not wishing to pursue the analogy too far, it is perhaps no coincidence that, at the outset of his second novel, the hero's 'little excursion into the wayside quagmires' is intended as no more than 'a short episode--a sentence in brackets so to speak--in the flowing tale of his life: a thing of no moment to be done unwillingly yet neatly and to be quickly forgotten.' Like his central character, Peter Willems, Conrad was to discover that there was to be no going back. He had composed Almayer's Folly, intermittently over a five-year period (1889-94), the manuscript accompanying him from London to various parts of the world--Austrian Poland, the Ukraine, the Congo Free State, Australia and France. By contrast, An Outcast of the Islands took little more than a year to write, from mid-August 1894 to mid-September 1895, and was composed in two places: the writer's London lodgings near Victoria Railway Station, and the Hotel de la Roseraie in the Geneva suburb of Champel-les-Bains, during visits to undergo hydrotherapy treatment for a condition then called 'neurasthenia' (and now termed clinical depression)"--

Europeans --- Trading companies --- Betrayal --- Clerks --- Lingard, Tom (Fictitious character) --- Européens --- Sociétés de commerce --- Trahison (Morale) --- Employés de bureau --- Lingard, Tom (Personnage fictif) --- Fiction --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- Southeast Asia --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Fiction.

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Continuing education --- Formation tout au long de la vie --- Lifelong education --- Lifelong learning --- Permanent education --- Permanente vorming --- Recurrent education --- Recyclage (Éducation) --- Éducation continue --- Éducation permanente --- Éducation postscolaire et complémentaire --- Éducation récurrente --- Éducation tout au long de la vie --- Clerks --- Office practice --- Employés de bureau --- Bureautique --- Effect of automation on --- Automation --- Effet de l'automatisation sur --- Employés de bureau

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"Discret, voire effacé, l'employé de bureau a traversé deux siècles de littérature sans accéder à la reconnaissance littéraire qu'il aurait pourtant méritée. De cette injustice est né le présent ouvrage et avec lui le désir d'explorer l'un des grands motifs du roman européen. Le Roman de l'employé entend ainsi retracer l'itinéraire romanesque de ce personnage moins banal qu'il n'y paraît : des ronds-de-cuir balzaciens au blogueur désabusé de Philippe Delerm ; des commis de Guy de Maupassant aux scribouillards de Georges Hyvernaud ou de Henri Calet ; sans oublier bien sûr Herman Melville et la figure mythique de Bartleby. Les exemples abondent d'écrivains qui, par-delà les nations et les générations, éprouvèrent le besoin de conter les mésaventures de bureaucrates insignifiants, c'est-à-dire de "faire un livre sur (presque) rien". Peu remarqué jusqu'à présent, l'employé de bureau renferme donc une richesse et une vitalité remarquables. A travers ces modestes "gratte-papiers" se révèle en effet tout un monde littéraire, historique, social voire philosophique. Véritable point d'observation du roman et de la société, il permet aussi de revisiter l'histoire littéraire et d'éclairer sous un jour nouveau le statut de l'écrivain et les ressorts de la création littéraire."--P. [4] of cover.

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Social law. Labour law --- Employees --- Laborers --- Loontrekkers --- Travailleurs --- Wage earners --- Werknemers --- Unemployment insurance --- Unemployment --- Manpower policy --- Clerks --- Labor laws and legislation --- Assurance-chômage --- Chômage --- Emploi --- Employés de bureau --- Travail --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Droit --- Politique gouvernementale --- BE / Belgium - België - Belgique --- 349.1 --- 332.621.5 --- Sociale wetgeving. --- Cyclische werkloosheid. --- arbeidsrecht --- sociaal recht --- droit du travail --- droit social --- Sociale wetgeving --- Cyclische werkloosheid --- Assurance-chômage --- Chômage --- Employés de bureau --- Economic aspects

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Labour market --- Employers and workers organisations --- Clerks --- Trade-unions --- Employés de bureau --- Confédération française démocratique du travail --- Labor unions --- -Clerks --- -#SBIB:316.334.2A26 --- secteur tertiaire --- 338.901 --- 331.881 --- 331.872 --- P44 --- Clerical employees --- Clerical personnel --- Commercial employees --- Employees, Clerical --- Office employees --- Office workers --- White collar workers --- -Ontwikkeling van de industriële structuur: deïndustrialisering, diensteneconomie --- dienstensector --- tertiaire sector - dienstensector (zie ook 331.626.133) --- syndicalisme - vakbeweging --- arbeidsverdeling (zie ook 331.623, 65.014.1) --- Frankrijk --- Confederation francaise democratique du travail --- C.F.D.T. (Confédération française démocratique du travail) --- CFDT (Confédération française démocratique du travail) --- Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens --- CFDT --- Employés de bureau --- Confédération française démocratique du travail --- Confédération française démocratique du travail. --- #SBIB:316.334.2A26 --- Ontwikkeling van de industriële structuur: deïndustrialisering, diensteneconomie --- Confédération française démocratique du travail. --- Géographie politique --- Géographie sociale --- Clerks - France --- Clerks - Labor unions - France --- Geographie des activites tertiaires generale