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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... less than honest in his remarks on her early efforts at writing , or on his own . In 1897 , as he was poised on the brink , uncertain about his future , still seeking a sea command but with two novels behind him , he was feeling his way ...
... less than six weeks . With a dramatic flourish the final installment was rushed on Novem- ber 2 by train to Southampton to catch the last available mailboat to New York.4 Yet that final installment was less a conclusion to the novel ...
... less important in autobiography than documented events , and indeed are more so in the case of Conrad , who tells us repeatedly ( most notably in the Preface to The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ) that his truth is a human truth — a truth ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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