Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
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Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led näytä lisää to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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- Virallinen nimi
- Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad
- Muut nimet
- Conrad, Joseph
- Syntymäaika
- 1857-12-03
- Kuolinaika
- 1924-08-03
- Hautapaikka
- Canterbury City Cemetery, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
Poland - Maa (karttaa varten)
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Berdytsjiv, Oblast Zjytomyr, Oekraïne
- Kuolinpaikka
- Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, UK
- Kuolinsyy
- heart attack
- Asuinpaikat
- Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, UK
Lwow, Poland
Vologda, Russia
Marseille, France
Warsaw, Poland
Chernihiv, Ukraine (näytä kaikki 7)
Krakow, Poland - Koulutus
- homeschooled
- Ammatit
- auteur
- Suhteet
- Conrad, Jessie (wife)
Curle, Richard (friend) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- Joseph Conrad 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 was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad 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 universe.
Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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