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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... theme of exile is prominent with many of the characters of the two novels . The epigraph of Almayer's Folly , from Henri - Frédéric Amiel's Journal Intime , foregrounds this difficult and emotionally charged theme : " Qui de nous n'a eu ...
... themes , he was not so impressed with Nostromo as Leavis , finding it unbalanced and uncontrolled in its elaboration of historical detail . Zabel , too , again laudatory on many points , ends by finding fault with the novel's ...
... theme than playing for his readers ' laughter , or even , more subtly , the knowing complicities of assent . Indeed , it is not the reader who laughs , finding in this frightful , nerve - wracking tale of cruelty and danger very little ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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