Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
✔Full name- Jozef Theodor Konrad korzeniowski
✔Polish-British writer
✔The setting of Conrad's novel and short stories is 🌊 the sea...
✔while in service, he completed Almayer's Folly, and later it was published in 1895
✔His unfinished novel is suspense
✔The Nigger of the Narcissus - 1898-first great novel- deals with the necessary corruption in human society
✔Lord Jim -1900-Poetic and tragic- the story of the young English man who deserts his ship and loses his honor- regains through heroic death at last- the first part of Lord Jim was inspired by the real-life story of SS Jeddah- the second part to some extent by the life of James Brooke - psychological novel and modernism
✔ Heart of Darkness- 1902- novella- voyage up to congo river into the congo free state in the heart of Africa - Charles Marlow (narrator) - tells the story of a successful ivory trader Kurtz- it's the inspiration for the movies apocalypse now - ship name is Nellie- Mr Kurtz expires, uttering the words "The Horror! The Horror!"
✔ Nostromo-1904- political novel- explored politics and economics threatens the integrity of human character and corrupt personal relationship - sets in the fictional place south American country of costaguna.
✔The mirror of the sea -1906- based on the experience and memories of the sea
✔The Secret Agent - inspired by the French anarchist Martial Bourdin's death
✔T.S.Eliot 's poem ' The Hallow men' quotes as it's the first epigraph a line from Heart of Darkness" Mistah Kurtz- he dead"
✔His unfinished novel is Suspense
Chronological order of Conrad's novel
1895 - Almayer's Folly
1896- An Outcast of the Island
1897-The Nigger of Narcissus
1900- Lord Jim
1901- The inheritors
1902- Typhoon
1903- Romance
1904- Nostromo
1907- The Secret Agent
1911- Under western Eyes
1913- chance
1915- Victory
1917- The Shadow line
1919- The Arrow of God
1920- The Rescue
1923- The Nature of Crime
1923- Rover
1925- Suspense