Joseph conrad

In what ways was Joseph Conrad involved in the politics of his day? Culture.pl presents an academic paper by Sylvère Monod which reviews the full scope of Conrad's work to present his perspective on European politics at the turn of the 20th-century.

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Joseph Conrad (Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857-1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be regarded a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable…

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Conrad defends his novel The Shadow Line against claims that it’s supernatural: “The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is.” (1920)

Joseph Conrad’s heroes were often alone, and close to hostility and danger. Sometimes, when Conrad’s imagination was at its most fertile and his command of English at its most precise, the danger came darkly from within the self. At other times, however, it came from what could not be named. Conrad sought then to evoke rather than delineate, using something close to the language of prayer. While his imagination was content at times with the tiny, vivid, perfectly observed detail, it was also…

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With a new BBC adaptation of Conrad's The Secret Agent, we take a deeper look at the book.