Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, is about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilized people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises questions about imperialism and racism.

A REVOLUTIONARY war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a temporary importance; and then they become forgotten. The names of a few leaders alone survive the end of armed strife and are further preserved in history; so that, vanishing from men's active memories, they still exist in books. The name of General Santierra attained that cold, paper-and-ink immortality. He was a South American of good family, and the books published in his lifetime numbered him amongst the liberators of that continent from the oppressive rule of Spain. That long contest, waged for independence on one side and for dominion on the other, developed, in the course of years and the vicissitudes of changing fortune, the fierceness and inhumanity of a struggle for life.

One of those drifting trees grounded on the shelving shore, just by the house, and Almayer, neglecting his dream, watched it with languid interest. The tree swung slowly round, amid the hiss and foam of the water, and soon getting free of the obstruction began to move down stream again, rolling slowly over, raising upwards a long, denuded branch, like a hand lifted in mute appeal to heaven against the river's brutal and unnecessary violence. Almayer's interest in the fate of that tree increased rapidly.

Joseph Conrad såg den europeiska exploateringen av Kongo med egna ögon: Han skickades en gång själv uppför Kongofloden, för att leta upp en landsman på en handelsstation djupt inne i landet - även om denne man inte hette Kurtz. Resans mål och gåta har kommit att bli synonyma med detta namn, en av vår tids mest oförglömliga fiktiva gestalter, förkroppsligad av Marlon Brando i Francis Ford Coppolas filmatisering av Conrads roman. Mörkrets hjärta brukar kallas den bästa korta roman som skrivits på engelska. Boken utgör en brygga mellan 1800-talet och modernismen, en äventyrsberättelse som närmar sig den mångtydiga naturen hos teman som sanning, moral och ondska, filtrerad genom en röst vars pålitlighet som uttolkare av händelseförloppet blir en öppen fråga för läsaren. Här i svensk översättning av Margaretha Odelberg. JOSEPH CONRAD [1857-1924] föddes i ryska Ukraina av polska föräldrar, gick till sjöss som sjuttonåring och slutade som kapten i engelska handelsflottan. Efter en svår febersjukdom bosatte han sig i England och började skriva romaner. Hans mest berömda verk är kortromanen Mörkrets hjärta [Heart of Darkness, 1899].

A traves de un personaje ficticio (el viejo marinero "Marlow"), Conrad describe una travesia por el rio Congo en busca del senor "Kurtz" que es el jefe de una explotacion de marfil. El encuentro con Kurtz, sera la confirmacion de la hipocrita actitud colonialista y pone en tela de juicio su caracter de cruzada moral y comercial. El director de cine Francis Ford Coppola se baso en este breve relato para su pelicula Apocalypse Now, que si bien estaba ambientada en la guerra de Vietnam, mantenia el espiritu del relato de Conrad.

Joseph Conrad (born Teodor J zef Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born novelist. Some of his works have been labelled romantic: Conrad's supposed "romanticism" is heavily imbued with irony and a fine sense of man's capacity for self-deception. Many critics regard Conrad as an important forerunner of Modernist literature.

Joseph Conrad escribi esta novela basada en su experiencia en el Congo. Este cl sico habla de la lucha del hombre contra los elementos naturales, si bien ha servido y sirve para criticar la amarga historia de un pueblo sometido a los excesos y privilegios de la colonizaci n. El coraz n de las tinieblas, publicado en 1902, trasciende la circunstancia hist rica y social para convertirse en una exploraci n de las ra ces de lo humano, esas catacumbas del ser donde anida una vocaci n de irracionalidad destructiva que el progreso y la civilizaci n consiguen atenuar pero nunca erradicar del todo. Quiz la mejor introducci n a El coraz n de las tinieblas sea el escueto comentario que el propio Conrad hizo tras su viaje al Congo en 1890: Antes del Congo yo era un solo un simple animal. Aquel viaje que sin duda represent para l un descenso a los infiernos, es el que nos cuenta por boca de Marlow, su alter ego, con un relato estremecedor en el que las fueras elementales de la Naturaleza hallan su contrapartida en las fuerzas oscuras y primitivas que act an en el interior del hombre. En este relato, de una rara y subyugadora perfecci n estil stica, Conrad parece que alcanza su objetivo como escritor: nos hace o r, sentir y ver por medio del poder de la palabra escrita. El coraz n de las tinieblas es una de las historias m s conocidas de Conrad, y en ella se basar a Francis Ford Coppola para filmar Apocalypse.

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's experience as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land". In the course of his travel in central Africa, Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz. The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century.

Joseph Conrad (December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. 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. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

Joseph Conrad (December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. 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. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe.

Charting a homeward-bound voyage from Bombay to London aboard a sailing ship, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897) captured the late-Victorian era's maritime obsession and identified the strikingly original talent of Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) as a sea writer in what has proved to be a landmark of sea literature. The Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its origins and reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's sources and influences. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, and detail interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors. Also included are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations, including maps and pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition of The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication.

Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barra

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. 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.

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. 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.

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. 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.

The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist of The Lingard Trilogy, who was on his way to help a native friend regain his land when he falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.

Joseph Conrad (3 December 1857 - 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. 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.

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September-October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and America (April). The novella depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development.