Although the narrative of the novel can hardly go along with common readers' psychological expectation, it is an effective way to present the author Conrad's modern point of view in his work.

该小说的叙述超越了一般读者的期待视野，但这正是作者康拉德表现他的现代视角的所在。

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The motive of the novel, using the modern psychological analysis, is the instinct of life and the agita.

这其中的创作动机，运用现代心理学知识的解释，即作者内心深处生活本能意识和死亡本能意识的激荡。

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How else could he have become such a chronicler whose greatest work is still studied as the precursor of the modern psychological novel?

ECONOMIST: New fiction