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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... nature of the self . In his search for Kurtz , his alter ego , Marlow ultimately recognizes that he has been striving for " something altogether without a substance " ( 48 ) . By portraying Kurtz as a " hollow sham , " Conrad laid the ...
... nature of narrative theory is crucial in my view . In general I have not taken up issues of gender in my reading of Conrad in this chapter . This is a strategic move on my part . Within this context , the crucial point in the current ...
... nature while perceiving human nature in relation to the surrounding universe ( Sherry , 105-6 ) . Conrad's tech- nique is modern , Garnett asserts , in the same way that Turgenev and Flaubert are modern ( Sherry , 107 ) . The Academy ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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