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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... represent nothing beyond itself ; it has become pure textuality . It becomes " a self - generating sequence of sentences for which narrative and narrator are mere pretexts , the realization of mechanism of well - nigh random narrative ...
... represent the standards of western life " create a " quality of intense personal commitment combined with a severe dis- cipline in moral and humanistic objectivity . " He believes therefore that the novel " leaves its question open ...
... represent societies that possess conventional and identifiable rules for assigning truth to propositions and referring out to systems of authority . When the old teacher pursues truth in his reflections it is truth in this conventional ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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