Asked by Ford Maddox Ford to contribute to a memorial supplement to the Transatlantic Review in honor of the recently deceased Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway groused about friends who disparaged ...
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently ...
CULTURAL ASPECTS OF JOSEPH CONRAD’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. ON THE DIGRESSIVE STRUCTURE OF SOME REMINISCENCES
In this essay I attempt to analyse Joseph Conrad’s ‘autobiography’ — as it is presented in Some Reminiscences — with particular reference to the enduring cultural patterns that it exhibits. According ...
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. By Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Press; 400 pages; $30. William Collins; £25. JOSEPH CONRAD was a phenomenon. Born to Polish parents in 1857 in a part of the ...
The Shadow-Line represents a fundamental achievement in Conrad’s literary career and constitutes the peak of the author’s ethical reflection on the relationship between literature and life. By ...
In our guide to the classics series, experts explain key works of literature For me, no novel provides a better account of what we humans are up against in our pursuit of the true and the good than ...
The gleaming white skin and hairless head. The emaciated body carried out on a stretcher. The worshipful natives on every side, fulfilling even the most capricious commands. The almost spectral ...
To the newest generation of adult readers the dawn of a literary light is a rare experience. It is as if the courses of our literature were Arctic in their slowness, as if the day came at long ...
Illiberalism in the country is alive and well. By Jaroslaw Kuisz and Karolina Wigura Maya Jasanoff’s book, “The Dawn Watch,” uses Conrad’s work to tell a story of globalization, imperialism and ...
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