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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... seems to consist of keeping the Home Secretary in the dark " ( 6 ) .10 As Conrad acknowledges , the anecdote is " not much in itself " ( 6 ) . It seems , though , to have opened up further possibilities for developing the story he was ...
... seems cursed . She is soon becalmed and the malaria spreads . Then the captain is horrified to discover that the quinine bottles have been filled with some other powder . Mr. Burns attributes the ship's mis- fortunes to the old captain ...
... seems paranoid and cannot do without the constant companionship of an old sorcerer . When the gunrunners return for a final sale , they learn of the death of the old wizard . Some days later , Karain boards their ship and confesses that ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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