Heart of Darkness - Couverture souple

Conrad, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1936041103 ISBN 13 : 9781936041107

Editeur : Simon & Brown, 2010

Synopsis

The best selling classic Heart of Darkness tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who worked for a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more urgent job is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

From Wikipedia: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;[1]:11-12 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole.[note 1] Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English,[2] although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist, who brought a distinctly non-English[note 2] tragic sensibility into English literature.[3] While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald,[4] William Faulkner,[4] Ernest Hemingway,[5] George Orwell,[6]:254 Graham Greene,[4] Malcolm Lowry, William Golding,[4] William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez,[4] J. G. Ballard, John le Carré,[4] V.S. Naipaul,[4] Hunter S. Thompson, J.M. Coetzee[4] and Salman Rushdie.[note 3] Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Duel, Victory, The Shadow Line, and The Rover. 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 also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti, his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Travel up the Congo river in Africa at the turn of the 20th Century with Marlow, an adventurer, seaman, and wanderer searching for something he can't put into words. His journey up the river leads him to the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz, the object of Marlow's fascination. Through the power of his personality, Kurtz rules over the unruly inhabitants of the region, and Marlow finds himself drawn into a dark web of psychological suspense as he tries to unravel the man's methods and motives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Brown
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1936041103
• ISBN 13: 9781936041107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 92
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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