Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Few literary lives rival the sheer improbability of Joseph Conrad's — a Polish-born orphan who mastered the English language and sailed the world's great seas before becoming one of the most celebrated novelists in British literary history. Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder is the definitive biographical account of this extraordinary life, tracing Conrad's origins in Russian-occupied Poland, his turbulent years at sea, and his eventual transformation into the author of such monumental works as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and The Secret Agent. Najder, himself a Polish scholar uniquely positioned to illuminate Conrad's dual cultural identity, brings unparalleled scholarly rigour and intimate cultural understanding to his subject. Drawing on previously untranslated Polish sources and extensive archival research, the chronicle reconstructs Conrad's inner world with a precision that earlier English-language biographies could not achieve. The result is a portrait of a man perpetually caught between two worlds — and the haunting question of whether that displacement was Conrad's greatest burden or the secret engine of his genius.
Author: Zdzislaw Najder
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Rutgers Univ Pr
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: New/Excellent. - book is sealed in original publisher's shrink wrap. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good.
Few literary lives rival the sheer improbability of Joseph Conrad's — a Polish-born orphan who mastered the English language and sailed the world's great seas before becoming one of the most celebrated novelists in British literary history. Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder is the definitive biographical account of this extraordinary life, tracing Conrad's origins in Russian-occupied Poland, his turbulent years at sea, and his eventual transformation into the author of such monumental works as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and The Secret Agent. Najder, himself a Polish scholar uniquely positioned to illuminate Conrad's dual cultural identity, brings unparalleled scholarly rigour and intimate cultural understanding to his subject. Drawing on previously untranslated Polish sources and extensive archival research, the chronicle reconstructs Conrad's inner world with a precision that earlier English-language biographies could not achieve. The result is a portrait of a man perpetually caught between two worlds — and the haunting question of whether that displacement was Conrad's greatest burden or the secret engine of his genius.