Phenomenological criticism has recently enabled readings of Conrad that consider more closely the writer's reference to the physical body in the text. This essay adds to discussions of Conrad's visual and epistemological strategies the exploration of physical presence, gesture, and movement. By reading Conrad's use of individual gesture and passages of movement in Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim in the context of contemporary innovations in theatrical dance in the period, the essay examines how Conrad's skepticism about language prompts him to use the silent action of his characters to express moments of affective intensity and to suggest the spatialization of time by the body.

现象学批评最近使得对康拉德的阅读更加紧密地考虑了作者对文本中身体的提及。本文增加了对康拉德的视觉和认识论策略的探讨，探讨了物理存在，手势和动作。通过阅读康拉德在那段时期的当代戏剧舞蹈创新背景下对《黑暗之心》和《吉姆勋爵》中个人手势和动作通道的使用，本文考察了康拉德对语言的怀疑如何促使他使用角色的沉默行动表达情感强度的瞬间，并暗示身体时间的空间化。