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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... feel victimized , are those who feel the empowerment of others through words : Marlow listening to Kurtz , for example , or Razumov's listening to the political chatter of his more ideological classmates or to the secret police official ...
... feels one's liver , or lungs . Well I feel my brain . I am distinctly conscious of the contents of my head . My story is there in a fluid - in an evading shape " ( Karl 1979 , 424 ; see also 379 ) . We must remember that Conrad found ...
... feeling and unreflective work . For the captain feels admiration for the men alongside his own fear , in his capacity as a fellow human being rather than in his capacity as their captain . But precisely his unreflective work sustains ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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