Elio Chinol Knihy

Like a tree that is falling, going soft and pale and rotten, clammy with small fungi, he stood leaning against the gate, while the dim afternoon drifted with a flow of thick sweet sunshine past him, not touching him.

Poslední dokončený román Josepha Conrada se odehrává na pozadí velké francouzské revoluce a sleduje osudy piráta Peyrola.