A Joseph Conrad CompanionLeonard Orr, Theodore Billy Bloomsbury Academic, 30 de jul. 1999 - 346 pàgines 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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... civilization , it is nonetheless obvious , as any reader of Almayer's Folly ( and An Outcast of the Islands ) knows , that he more often than not ends up exposing it ... to the light of a corrosive irony . This irony is in great part ...
... civilization he represents even in his debased and outcast condition into a near - animal life . This is presented by the omniscient narrator as ludicrous and insane , even while using the free - indirect style of Willems : " She would ...
... civilization , " a hatred that potentially led not to the transformation ( or even just the degradation ) of society but to its annihilation . This opposition structures even a work as sophisticated as Henry James's The Princess ...
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Letters | 15 |
The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897 | 49 |
Heart of Darkness 1899 | 65 |
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