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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‘Whispers’, ‘Smiles’, & The ‘Multitude’: The Necessity and Thematic Functionality of Coded Words in Conrad’s The Secret Agent Lyrics: “What could words do to her for good or evil in the face of her fixed idea?” / (Conrad 206) / “It was as though he had been trying to fit all the words he could remember to his

Conrad’s novella of colonial atrocity has inspired powerful images from entrants to a competition to illustrate the book. Take a look at a gallery of their work

INTERVIEWER How would you define fantastic, then? BORGES I wonder if you can define it. I think it’s rather an intention in a writer. I remember a very deep remark of Joseph Conrad—he is one of my favorite authors—I think it is in the foreword to something like The Dark Line, but it’s not that […]

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…

Was the novelist right to think everyone was getting him wrong?

“It was the very essence of his life to be a solitary achievement, accomplished not by hermit-like withdrawal with its silence and immobility, but by a system of restless wandering, by the detachment

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…

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