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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... Malay pirates . Just as Almayer's racism makes him believe he is inherently superior to any of the Malays or Arabs on the river , his wife fantasizes about a return to Malay native sovereignty prior to the coming of Lingard and the ...
... Malay pirate past of her mother . " Nina adapted herself won- derfully to the circumstances of a half - savage and miserable life . She accepted without question or apparent disgust the neglect , the decay , the poverty of the household ...
... Malay culture to reveal their shared impulses . As d'Alcacer's wry distinction reveals , the superiority afforded by European civilization reduces to not getting " speared in the back " ( 408 ) . Simultaneously , the narrative addresses ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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