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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... spirit , and for the ends of the social revolution .... " We must educate , educate everybody - develop the great thought of absolute liberty and of revolutionary justice . " ( 287 ) To think in such " absolutes " is clearly to ...
... spirit becomes less a matter of pinning each particular of the text onto a documented detail in Conrad's life , than of discerning what sort of truth he is presenting and what he believes to be important . For Conrad , autobiography is ...
... spirit of self - consciousness " to nature . Finally Conrad , a brilliant impression- ist , 10 adds the vision of a poet and the " witchcraft of a master of style " to his practical knowledge of the sea . " 1 An early review of PR ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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