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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), a Polish expatriate born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, worked as a sailor on French and British ships before becoming a naturalized British subject in 1886. He developed an elaborate, beautiful English prose style and probed many of the deep questions of modern fiction in his short stories and novels.
Joseph Conrad was born Teodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, the only child of a patriotic Polish couple living in the southern Polish Ukraine. Conrad's father was esteemed as a translator of Shakespeare, as well as a poet and a man of letters in Poland, and Conrad's mother was a gentle, wellborn lady with a keen mind but frail ...
21 de nov. de 2017 · THE DAWN WATCH Joseph Conrad in a Global World By Maya Jasanoff Illustrated. 375 pp. Penguin Press. $30.. I turned my back on reading Joseph Conrad in 1967. This was also the year that I published ...
Joseph Conrad, né Teodor Józef Konrad Korzeniowski, est un écrivain polonais et britannique écrivant en langue anglaise. Né dans le sud de la Russie, il appartient à une famille de la noblesse polonaise (Szlachta). Orphelin à dix ans (son père venait de mourir en exil, après avoir été chassé à la suite de l’insurrection de 1863 ...
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is a major figure in modern literature. Before his writing career was established in 1899 with the serialised publication of Heart of Darkness, Conrad was a merchant seafarer and eventually a shipmaster of vessels that regularly sailed between Europe and its antipodes, making half a dozen visits to Australia and stopping at numerous other ports along the way.
Biografía de Joseph Conrad. Escritor británico de origen polaco, Joseph Conrad nació en Berdichev, actual Ucrania, el 3 de diciembre de 1857. Debido a la profundidad de su obra, en la que analiza los rincones más débiles y oscuros del alma humana, está considerado uno de los grandes autores en lengua inglesa del siglo XIX.
Biography: Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad was born in Berdyczow, which, at the time of his birth, on December 3, 1857, was a city in Ukraine. His birth name was Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, anglicized years later when he became a British citizen. Before one of those border realignments that regularly occur in that part of the world ...
