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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... look absurd . " And one can only add , just so . ' Those intractable aspects of existence Forster cheerfully calls " facts " , which can make us and our creeds look so absurd by their invincible indifference to our purposes , are ...
... look not to its laws , philosophies , political programs , or culture : these have no effect on quality of life . Look to cooking instead . ( We might recall Conrad's own chronic ill health , his gout and severe indigestion , and their ...
... look beyond the finished form of what we read , beyond the finalizing assumptions of power and " authority " the words bring with them , to an appreciation of the artful " work " before us and a rec- ognition of the personal and complex ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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