A Joseph Conrad CompanionLeonard Orr, Theodore Billy Bloomsbury Academic, 1999 M07 30 - 346 páginas 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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... Stevie is blown up . While Conrad , as his portrayal of the Professor indicates , was imaginatively drawn to the idea of obliteration , he was also hor- rified by it - horrified not ethically ( as Cunninghame Graham might have been ) or ...
... Stevie's death is first reported as an event that has already happened . While it is insistently referred to ... Stevie himself and his place in Conrad's novel . Early in the narrative Mr. Verloc , walking from his parlor to his kitchen ...
... Stevie's awful and formless remains , it also reminds us of the mingled fascination and revulsion with which Conrad contemplated the tools of his trade . 14 In his view , the struggle to achieve adequate expression , to wrest meaning ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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