The Works of Joseph Conrad

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Nov 29, See Article History. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Man was a solitary, romantic creature of will who at…. Lord Jim , originally conceived as a short story, grew to a full-length novel as Conrad found himself exploring in ever greater depth the perplexing, ambiguous problem of lost…. Novelists such as Joseph Conrad , Ford Madox Ford, Virginia Woolf, and, in his later period, Henry James developed a multiple-aspect narrative, sometimes by using time shifts and flashbacks and by writing from different points of view, sometimes by using the device dating back to Classical Greek romances of….

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The story, written at the height of the British empire, reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. His first book, Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography , was an expansion of his doctoral thesis. Kurtz contribution to English literature In English literature: Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.

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If you prefer to suggest your own revision of the article, you can go to edit mode requires login. Thank you for your feedback. His literary work bridges the gap between the realist literary Tradition of writers such as Charles Dickens and the emergent modernist schools of writing.

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Interestingly, he despised Dostoevsky, and Russian writers as a rule, possibly due to his political inclinations, making an exception only for Ivan Turgenev. Conrad is now best known for the novella Heart Of Darkness , which has been seen as a scathing indictment of colonialism. Chinua Achebe, however, has argued that Conrad's language and imagery is inescapably racist.

Some would claim that these can both be true. In he was offered but declined a Knighthood.

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What makes Biblio different? Sign In Register Help Cart. I think they forgot my mentions of imperialistic attitudes during our Victorian unit. Alas, the longwinded paragraphs and unbelievable spiel from the Marlow which the author himself attempts to defend in the introduction as critics at the time felt as I did left me cold and unenthused to attempt another. That said, one of my good friends thought Conrad a superb writer and loved his concise writing style!

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