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Indeed, Nostromo is a remarkable achievement. He thinks that Nostromo, first published in 1904, is still one of the few novels ever written that has successfully dealt with all the ambiguities of late 19th century’s imperial politics, possibly the most knotty subject matter for a work of imagination to broach. Deas, a distinguished British historian is also a well respected specialist in Colombian history who in 1964 helped to found the Latin American Center (LAC) at St. It was written by professor Malcolm Deas in an essay originally written in Spanish and titled “Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo.” 1

Consider the following assertion: “Joseph Conrad is the author of the most penetrating imaginative effort to understand a Latin American ambiance ever produced in contemporary English literature.”