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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... kind of invasive plat- form - an " abstract , rectilinear geometry " -from which the extraction of wealth can be carried on under the watchful eye of the military and political maintainers of order ( Berthoud 1992 , 147 ) . The value of ...
... kind of schizophrenic excess of interpretation and without any appreciation of measure or relevance : He could not understand how anyone could refrain from writing on anything , social , economic , historical - anything . Any subject ...
... kind of linguistic exercise in which we are involved when we sit down to read a novel . To destabilize in this way the customary patterns of realist fictional communication , whereby the passive reader surren- ders to the illusion of ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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