With stunning prescience, Conrad saw that at the very moment when European imperialism was nearing its apogee, its antithesis—what the French call tiermondisme —lurked just over the horizon, in the fullness of time to demonstrate that whatever the sins of colonialism, what was bound to follow could conceivably be worse, perhaps even far worse. Nostromo is a supreme work of art which is also a prophecy, one which more often than not has been amply fulfilled.
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