Joseph Conrad - Zdzisław Najder

Joseph Conrad
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Autor: Zdzisław Najder

 Wydawnictwo: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133472
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Data wydania: 2007-01-01
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Joseph Conrad is not only recognized as one of the world's great writers of English - and world - literature, but as a writer who lived a fascinating, unusually full and adventurous life. But Conrad's life presents the biographer with uncommon difficulty because, whether due to his itinerancy as a young man, the destruction of documentary evidence in the turmoil of the twentieth century, or the discreetness and relative isolation Conrad cultivated in his years as a writer, there are many periods for which documentation is difficult. ZdzisACaw Najder's meticulously documented biography first appeared in English in 1983, a product of twenty-five years of painstaking study, and received great praise as the best, most complete biography of Conrad. Najder's command of English, French, Polish, and Russian allowed him access to a greater variety of sources than any other biographer, and this has again come into play in the present revised edition. It provides extensive new material, much of it unearthed in newly opened former east-bloc archives. Najder's Polish background and his own experience as an exile in the 1980s have afforded him an unmatched affinity for Conrad and his milieu. There is new material on Conrad's father's genealogy and his role as a Polish national leader; Conrad's service in the French and British merchant marines; his early English reading and correspondence; his experiences in the Congo and their international context, the circumstances of writing A Personal Record and Under Western Eyes, and much more. In addition, several aspects of Conrad's life and works are more thoroughly and precisely analyzed: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; his attitude toward socialism; and his reaction to the reception of his books. New material makes up a quarter of the text of the revised edition and almost three-quarters of the references. ~~~~ ZDZISA AW NAJDER teaches at the European Academy in Cracow. He studied at the universities of Warsaw and Oxford, and has taught in Warsaw and Opole as well as at Columbia, Yale, and California. He has devoted a large part of his scholarly life to the study of Conrad; the first of his many books was Conrad's Polish Background (1964). Active in the Polish anti-communist underground, Najder lived in exile from 1981 to 1990 and was sentenced to death in absentia by a Polish military tribunal in 1983 for his work with Radio Free Europe's Polish service. He lives in Warsaw. That Conrad's beliefs are so much bigger than his doubts may account for the relatively small number of biographies since 1960. The best is still Zdzislaw Najder's (work.) WEEKLY STANDARD The revisions to Zdzislaw Najder's Joseph Conrad further strengthen what was already the indispensable biography. They are extensive and substantial, incorporating not only Najder's own discoveries but those by such distinguished scholars as Andrew Busza, J. H. Stape, the late Sylvere Monod, and the late Hans van Marle.--Laurence Davies, University of Glasgow, General Editor of Conrad's Collected Letters A heroic achievement. THE INDEPENDENT (A) portrait of a remarkable human in his native milieu and the story of how he adapted to a very different environment. Nader's Conrad is a man of deep emotions under a mask of circumspection. (Builds) up a detailed portrait of Conrad using every scrap of available information. LITERARY REVIEW This hefty book is a pleasure to read. This present edition is a fifth revision and the second published in English. (The author provides) material formerly unavailable. POLISH AMERICAN JOURNAL When I reviewed the first English edition of this book in 1984, I called it "the richest and most persuasive portrait of Conrad we have had or will probably ever have." Happily, however, the author hasn't rested on his laurels. Once again, Professor Najder sets the very highest biographical standard. Everything that has come to light about Conrad during the past quarter-cent

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