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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim / The Nigger of Narcissus / Typhoon / Nostromo / The Secret Agent (1951) 167 copie
Joseph Conrad: Three Great Tales (Heart of Darkness, Typhoon, Nigger of the Narcissus) (1958) 93 copie
Typhoon and Other Tales 50 copie
The shadow-line, and two other tales: Typhoon, The secret sharer (Doubleday anchor books, A178) (1959) — Autore — 35 copie
The Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: The Stories (Conrad, Joseph//Complete Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad) (1935) 29 copie
Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire, A Longman Cultural Edition (2006) 27 copie
Fictions of Empire: Complete Texts With Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical Essays (New Riverside Editions) (2002) 25 copie
Works of Joseph Conrad. (25 Works) Includes Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer, The Secret Agent, Under Western… (2008) 25 copie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / The Secret Sharer / Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles (2008) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
Joseph Conrad, life and letters 18 copie
Lord Jim 14 copie
Three Novels by Joseph Conrad: The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer (1970) 13 copie
Heart of Darkness. The Congo Diary 12 copie
Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House) (2012) 10 copie
Heart of Darkness 9 copie
[unidentified works] 8 copie
Short Stories 8 copie
Eight tales 7 copie
The Conrad Reader 7 copie
Laughing Anne & One day more. Two plays by .... With an introduction by John Galsworthy. (1924) 6 copie
The Sisters 6 copie
EL ALMA DEL GUERRERO 6 copie
The Definitive Joseph Conrad Collection: The Collected Novels in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 6 copie
Reading & Training : Joseph Conrad : Heart of darkness [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 5 copie
Mensen en de zee 5 copie
El corazon de las tinieblas, con el Diario del Congo de Conrad y Las voces de Kurtz (Spanish Edition) (2015) 4 copie
The Inheritors / Almayer's Folly — Autore — 4 copie
Il Conde 4 copie
Histórias de horror 3 copie
Four Fictions 3 copie
The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Joseph Conrad) (2015) 3 copie
Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Nostromo, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold,… (2012) 3 copie
Lord Jim 1 3 copie
Epistolario 3 copie
Almayer's Folly / Last Essays — Autore — 3 copie
Heart of darkness 2 copie
Jarrett(?) and Two other Stories 2 copie
Joseph Conrad, Werke, 4 Bde., Almayers Luftschloss, Herz der Finsternis, Freya von den sieben Inseln, Lord Jim -… (2000) 2 copie
The arrow of gold / The rescue 2 copie
Lord Jim; an authoritative text . . . Edited by Thomas Moser Norton critical editions (1968) 2 copie
Noveller 2 copie
Joseph Conrad 10 Book Set (Lord Jim, Youth, Chance, Suspense, The Arrow of Gold, Twixt Land and Sea, Tales of Unrest,… (1928) 2 copie
Heart of Darkness 2 copie
De Paises Lejanos 2 copie
Romanzi e racconti d'avventura 2 copie
Lord Jim. tom II 2 copie
Karain och andra berättelser 2 copie
Storie di mare e di marinai 2 copie
The Collected Short Stories of Joseph Conrad: 28 Short Stories in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 2 copie
The Heart of Darkness: Level 6 2 copie
Obras completas IV 2 copie
At the Door of Darkness 2 copie
Four great short stories 2 copie
Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels and Novellas A Biography of the Author (The Greatest Writers of All Time) (2017) 2 copie
Contos do Desassossego 1 copia
GERI ZEKALILAR 1 copia
Gospoda pod dwiema wiedźmami 1 copia
Corazón de las tinieblas: (y Cuadernos del Congo) (Grandes Clásicos) (Spanish Edition) (2018) 1 copia
Il compagno segreto 1 copia
Conrad's Short Stories Complete 1 copia
Freya fra de syv øer 1 copia
Ungdom 1 copia
Tifo 1902 1 copia
LORD XHIMI 1 copia
Un reietto delle isole 1 copia
The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad) (2022) 1 copia
THE SECRET SHARER Annotated 1 copia
Agentul secret 1 copia
Alma Russa 1 copia
Joseph Conrad TALES OF HEARSAY 1926 Doubleday, Page & Co., NY Leatherbound [Hardcover] unknown 1 copia
Heart of Darkness (British Classics Series): Including Author's Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays 1 copia
In the heart of darkness 1 copia
La laguna e altri racconti 1 copia
Corsarul 1 copia
The N----- of the Narcissus 1 copia
II Conde 1 copia
Nostrodomo (German Edition) 1 copia
Juventude - ed. clube 1 copia
Coração das Trevas - ed. clube 1 copia
Il reietto delle isole: romanzo 1 copia
The Novels of Joseph Conrad 1 copia
Spas 1 copia
Cloak and Dagger — Autore — 1 copia
Lord Jim 1920 [Leather Bound] 1 copia
El agente secreto. Novela. 1 copia
The Warrior's Soul 1 copia
Niggeren på "Narcis" 1 copia
Pirouzi (Victory) 1 copia
හෘද සාක්ෂියක අඳෝනාව 1 copia
The Informer and Other Stories 1 copia
Heart of Darkness and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad (Annotated) (Literary Classics Collection Book 111) (2012) 1 copia
New Oxford Progressive English Readers: Level 2: Lord Jim (Oxford Progressive English Readers Hong Kong) (2007) 1 copia
Lord Jim. Guild edition 1 copia
Christmas Day at Sea 1 copia
Ungdom ; [Det inderste mørke] 1 copia
Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20 Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of… (2015) 1 copia
Gioventù, e altri due racconti 1 copia
Henry James, an appreciation 1 copia
The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad [Partial Set of 15 Volumes, 1-3, 5-12, 21, 22, 24] (1. Arrow of Gold; 2. Chance; 3.… (1924) 1 copia
Selected short stories 1 copia
The World at War 1914-1918 1 copia
Wybór nowel 1 copia
Teatro 1 copia
Mr. Vladimir and Mr. Verloc 1 copia
Erzählungen 1 copia
Nostromo (Videotape) 1 copia
Well Done! 1 copia
The Secret Agent / The Inheritors — Autore — 1 copia
An Introduction to Conrad. 1 copia
Listy 1 copia
A Conrad Companion 1 copia
The Best of Joseph Conrad 1 copia
Memoirs and essays 1 copia
Novellas and Short Stories 1 copia
Ultimi romanzi 1 copia
Initiation 1 copia
The Men Behind The Trident 1 copia
The Tale and Other Stories 1 copia
3: Romanzi occidentali 1 copia
Opowiadania wybrane 1 copia
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad - The Franklin Library - H.Tom Hall Illustrations - Limited Edition 1 copia
Ölüm Seferi 1 copia
The Lagoon and Other Stories 1 copia
Obras completas III 1 copia
Within the Tides Annotated 1 copia
Youth / Heart of Darkness — Autore — 1 copia
50 Mystery and Detective masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 (2021 Edition) (2020) 1 copia
Przygoda 1 copia
Ostatnie szkice 1 copia
Opowieści zasłyszane ; Siostry 1 copia
O życiu i literaturze 1 copia
The Shifting of the Fire 1 copia
Lagunen : Fortellinger 1 copia
Works (Malay Edition) 1 copia
Joseph Conrad on The Art of Writing. Being a reprinting of the original preface to "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Issued… (1914) 1 copia
Typhoon / The End of the Tether 1 copia
Cuore di tenebra - La linea d'ombra: Ediz. integrali (Grandi Classici Vol. 21) (Italian Edition) (2015) 1 copia
The Age Of Fables 1 copia
All men are Brothers 1 copia
Mocidade e O parceiro secreto 1 copia
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 147 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 131 copie
A Little Night Reading: Twenty Tales of Horror and the Supernatural (1974) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
British Mystery Megapack Volume 3: The Mysterious Affair At Styles, The Secret Agent, The Man Who Would Be King, A… (2014) 12 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Ein Baum wächst in Brooklyn / Taifun / Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame / Lausbubengeschichten (1973) 5 copie
Stories of the Sea — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Selected Stories of Great Authors — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Speculative Fiction and Imperialism in Africa (Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in… (2013) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
50 seltsame Geschichten — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Korzeniowski Konrad, Jozef Teodor
- Altri nomi
- Conrad, Joseph
- Data di nascita
- 1857-12-03
- Data di morte
- 1924-08-03
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Cimitero di Canterbury, Kent, Inghilterra
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Berdicev, Polonia, Europa
- Luogo di morte
- Bishopsbourne, Inghilterra. Europa
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, UK
Lwow, Poland
Vologda, Russia
Marseille, France
Warsaw, Poland
Chernihiv, Ukraine (mostra tutto 7)
Krakow, Poland - Istruzione
- homeschooled
- Attività lavorative
- marinaio sulle navi mercantili britanniche
Capitano di vascello a vapore
scrittore - Relazioni
- Bobrowska, Ewa (madre)
Korzeniowski, Apollo Nalecz
Bobrowski, Tadeusz (zio materno)
George, Jessie (moglie)
Korzeniowski, Borys Alfred (figlio)
Korzeniowski, John Alexander (figlio) - Breve biografia
- 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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Ecco, secondo me sì, anche se non riesco a biasimare chi lo bolla come feccia razzista, perché il punto di vista di Conrad, veicolato attraverso il racconto di Marlow, oggi è inaccettabile e il fastidio che provoca può facilmente annegare quello che Cuore di tenebra è ancora capace di dirci, cioè che la nostra civiltà è ben lungi dall’essere conquistata per sempre.
Per quanto, infatti, ci raccontiamo di aver superato la nostra disumanità e averla cancellata a colpi di progresso, basta un nonnulla per far cadere la nostra facciata di popoli civili e ripiombare nell’oscurità della ferocia. Conrad racconta molto bene la perdita di ogni freno inibitorio dettata dall’avidità di materie prime, dal razzismo e dalla lontananza fisica da ogni giudizio morale vincolante, che rende inutile anche il mantenimento di una parvenza di civiltà.
Cuore di tenebra è ancora rilevante per il modo in cui espone quell’orrore che sta dentro di noi, appena sotto la superficie dei nostri principi cosiddetti inviolabili, che non sono riusciti affatto a tenerlo a bada; un orrore che riaffiora ancora e ancora, stupendoci ogni volta, nonostante le annose denunce delle persone razzializzate.
Eh già. Noi oggi, in più di Conrad, abbiamo le testimonianze e le denunce delle vittime di quell’orrore: iniziare a prenderle sul serio e ad ascoltarle, invece di liquidarle come esagerazioni, potrebbe essere un buon modo per non cadere dal pero davanti a certi soprusi.… (altro)