The Nature of a Crime


Lu par Mark Leder

(2.9 stars; 5 reviews)

The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and financial scandal, the anonymous narrator contemplates suicide in a series of letters to his beloved. (1 hr 58 min)

Chapitres

Preface 10:59 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 1 22:49 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 2 9:23 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 3 5:02 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 4 15:36 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 5 16:20 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 6 16:12 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 7 10:23 Lu par Mark Leder
Chapter 8 11:59 Lu par Mark Leder

Critiques

Spirited reading of an amusingly warped tale


(4 stars)

Mr Leder reads this bizarre monologue in a spirit entirely in accord with is gleeful and often self-pitying malevolence. The tale itself sounds a little like an early dress rehearsal for the far superior The Good Soldier, and surely bears much more Ford’s stamp than Conrad’s, even if nominally a collaboration.