The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
New York : Pantheon Books, [2007]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xxvii, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literature's most important writers--whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant eighty years after his death. In this authoritative, insightful book, we see Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in Berdichev, Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor out of Marseilles; traveled to the Far East and Africa with the British merchant navy; and, finally, in 1891, settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as an novelist and family man. Here is a Conrad for our moment: a man with a deep sense of otherness; a writer with multiple cultural identities who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of literary Modernism.
With his exceptional knowledge and understanding of Conrad, and drawing on unpublished letters and documents, John Stape succeeds in casting an illuminating new light on the life of a willfully enigmatic man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.
With his exceptional knowledge and understanding of Conrad, and drawing on unpublished letters and documents, John Stape succeeds in casting an illuminating new light on the life of a willfully enigmatic man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.
ISBN:
9781400044498
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Conrad, Joseph | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Adult | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-353) and index.