"Throughout his fiction, Conrad is concerned with moral dilemmas, the isolation of the individual to be tested by experience, and the psychology of inner urges in both groups and individuals. Some Reminiscences is a testimonial to his high artistic aims."@en
"Throughout his fiction Conrad was concerned with moral dilemmas, the isolation of the individual to be tested by experience, and the psychology of inner urges in both groups and individuals. His semi-autobiographical Some Reminiscences (1912) (published in the States as A Personal Record) testify to his high artistic aims."@en
"One of the unifying themes that runs through Joseph Conrad's work is the problem of perception: two people can witness the same event and come away with completely diverging impressions of what occurred. Given his preoccupation with perception, it comes as no surprise that Some Reminiscences, the closest thing to a memoir that Conrad ever published, is a loosely interconnected series of observations, essays, and vignettes, rather than a traditional, linear ""life story."""@en