A Joseph Conrad CompanionLeonard Orr, Theodore Billy Bloomsbury Academic, 30 հլս, 1999 թ. - 346 էջ Best known as the author of Heart of Darkness (1899), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is one of the most widely taught writers in English. His mastery of the English language is especially notable, for he was born in a Ukrainian area of Poland under Czarist Russian rule and began a sea career in France. He joined the British merchant fleet, and his travels took him to European imperial outposts throughout Asia, South America, and Africa. To pass the monotonous time on land between journeys, he began to write fiction in English. Never quite at home anywhere, he spoke a thickly accented mix of English, Polish, and French. He sometimes posed as a flirtatious Frenchman, a fallen Polish nobleman, and an English country squire and man of letters. Like many writers, his works reflect his experiences. Interest in his writings has become especially strong, in light of their relationship to marginality and postcolonialism. |
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... African novelist Chinua Achebe , see Conrad himself as guilty of racist tenden- cies . Though he admits that the novel criticizes colonial exploitation , Achebe brands Conrad a " thoroughgoing racist " who presents Africa and Africans ...
... Africa overwhelms them . And Marlow's only fidelity is to his command of the steamer , for his concern with practical efficiency remains his one standard of conduct throughout . " As a youth , Marlow expressed the naive desire to get to ...
... Africa , he seems to be traveling to the center of the planet , and as the wil- derness begins to look more and more primeval , Marlow feels as if the world is regressing into primal savagery . 18 He identifies with the wildness ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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