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Nostromo (or Giovanni Battista Fidanza) – a charismatic Italian seaman who has settled in Sulaco and established a reputation for leadership and daring; as an employee of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, he earns the unofficial title of the "Capataz de Cargadores", or "Head Longshoreman"
- Joseph Conrad
- 1904
The USCSS Nostromo was constructed in 2101 as an interstellar cruiser, but was refitted in 2116 as a commercial towing vehicle. The Nostromo was subsequently operated as a commercial hauler, transporting automated ore and oil refineries between the outer colonies and Earth.
Nostromo is a modernist novel about South American politics, capitalism, and revolution, influenced by French realism and Impressionism. The novel explores the relation between moral idealism and material interests through various characters and events, and challenges the notion of progress and evolution.
Nostromo, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1904 and considered one of Conrad’s strongest works. Nostromo is a study of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a fictional South American republic. The work anticipates many of the political crises of Third World countries in the 20th.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A gripping tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion, set amid the mist-shrouded mountains of a fictional South American republic, employs flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men.
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A classic novel of adventure and corruption set in a fictional South American country during a revolution. Nostromo, an Italian longshoreman, is entrusted with a priceless silver mine and becomes a powerful and greedy figure in the conflict.
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Originally published in 1904, Nostromo is considered by many to be Conrad’s supreme achievement. Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, the novel reveals the effects of unbridled greed and imperialist interests on many different lives.
