He was deeply interested in a small number of writers both in French and English whose work he studied carefully. Joseph Conrad settled in England in 1894, the year before he published his first novel. He was hired to take a steamship into Africa, and according to Conrad, the experience of seeing firsthand the horrors of colonial rule left him a changed man. He was made a Master Mariner, and served more than sixteen years before an event inspired him to try his hand at writing. He then began to work aboard British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa.Ĭonrad left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into the Russian Army. Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh Walpole
He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent world. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past.
The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship.
When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj.
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