An Outcast of the Islands - Couverture souple

Conrad, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0460877739 ISBN 13 : 9780460877732

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1996

Synopsis

Born in Poland,Conrad(1857-1924) joined the French navy at the age of 17 and finally settled in England in 1894.Written in the author's third language,AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS was Conrad's second novel and it confirms the early importance of the themes of alienation,power and betrayal which resurface in later works such as NOSTROMO and THE HEART OF DARKNESS.In AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS,Willems,a company clerk,betrays the confidence of his employes and finds himself publicly shamed.Seeking to start afresh,he moves to a distant trading post but ironically finds himself at the others' dishonesty.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent), he was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly 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 is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and more recently Salman Rushdie. Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while profoundly exploring human psychology. Appreciated early on by literary critics, his fiction and nonfiction have since been seen as almost prophetic, in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0460877739
• ISBN 13: 9780460877732
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible