The life of Joseph Conrad : a critical biography

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The life of Joseph Conrad : a critical biography

John Batchelor

(Blackwell critical biographies, 4)

Blackwell, 1994

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Bibliography: p. [310]-322

Includes index

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Joseph Conrad, who was born in the Ukraine in 1857, brought up in Poland and schooled in the merchant marine, died near Canterbury in 1924, having become a major British novelist of the period 1895-1920. John Batchelor's biography of this enigmatic figure uses archive material, as well as published sources, to reveal the close relationship, at every stage of Conrad's writing career, between the life and the work. Conrad was both depressive and delinquent. He manipulated friends, such as Ford Madox Ford, Edward Garnett and John Galsworthy, into relationships that went at least some way to meeting his urgent psychological needs. He suffered from virulent writer's block, and would accept substantial advances from publishers and his agent, J.B. Pinker, for works which he then found himself unable or unwilling to write. Many of his best-known works, "Heart of Darkness" , "Lord Jim" and "Nostromo", for example, can be seen as forms of escape from uncongenial duties. Batchelor's study, which includes an account of the complex and fugitive Polish background, reveals Conrad as being one of the most tormented and self-defeating of Britain's literary figures.

目次

  • Conrad and Poland
  • officer of the merchant marine
  • man of letters 1894-1898
  • the first three Marlow narrations 1898-1900 - "Youth", "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim"
  • from "Typhoon" to "Nostromo" 1900-1904
  • towards Verloc 1904-1907
  • from Verloc to Razumov 1907-1911
  • the problems and paradoxes of "Chance" 1911-1914
  • "Victory and Defeat" 1914-1915
  • "The Shadow-Line" 1915-1917
  • "The Arrow of Gold", "The Rescue", "The Rover" and "Suspense" 1917-1924.

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