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Joseph Conrad

Jzef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski


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Timeline
1857 - December 3.
Joseph Conrad is born in Berdychiv to Apollo
Korzeniowski and Ewelina Bobrowska

1861 - Conrads father is arrested for conspiracy

1862 - Conrads family is exiled to Vologda,


Russia
1863 - Apollos 1869 - Conrads father
sentence is lightened and
passes away from tuberculosis
they are sent to
- Conrad is taken in by his
Chernihiv, Ukraine
maternal uncle Tadeusz
Bobrowski
1864 - Conrads mother
passes away from
tuberculosis
1874 - Conrad goes to Marseilles where he travels on the sea for the first
time
1875 - He becomes a trainee seaman
1877 - Conrad is involved in gun smuggling to Spanish rebels
1878 - Conrad attempts to commit suicide
1890 - Conrad works on river-steamer on the Congo River for the Societe
Anonyme pour le Commerce du Haut-Congo
1894 - Conrad retires from his marine career

1895 - Conrad publishes his first novel Almayer's Folly

1899- Heart of Darkness is published

1924 - Joseph Conrad passes away from a heart attack


Early Life & Background
Background

Polish by birth

English was his third language

Well-to-do Catholic parents

Parents had broad cultural interests


Apollo Korzeniowski - Josephs father

Was a scholarly intellectual He was a poet and dramatist,


who became an active very interested in French and
revolutionary English literature

The family was forced to He translated works of


leave Poland and seek exile Shakespeare and Victor Hugo
in Russia
New Beginnings

Exile and the death of his wife (tuberculosis), caused Apollo to


become depressed and defeated

Joseph had to live in this atmosphere, he sought refuge in books


and his imagination

When his father died he was taken under the care of his uncle, to
whom he confided that he wanted to go to sea one day
At age 9, while looking at a map of
Africa, he placed his finger on the
blank space that represented the
undiscovered areas of the continent
and announced to himself :

When I grow up I shall go there.


Writing Style
Prose

- Long, complex sentences


- Alliteration
- Repetition
Writing Style - Technical Literary Practices

Use of hyponyms/synonyms
Use of adjectives
Use of adverbs
Travel Language
- Fluent: Polish, French,
- Themes reflect his English
life experiences - Kind of knew: Latin,
- Morality, Arabic, Germany

loneliness, travel English is so plastic if you


havent got a word you need
- Description you can make it, but to write
French you have to be an
artist . - Joseph Conrad
Writing Style
in
Heart of Darkness
Autobiographical Framed
Aspects Narrative
Story within a story
Marlow VS Conrad
Conrads experiences in Effect of Marlows
the Congo story on the narrator

Accuracy of
Marlows story
- Language of the time
Racism? - Criticizing imperialism in Africa
- Ex. Kurtz being forced to return
- Ex. Psychological impact on characters

- Chinua Achebes opinion


- Projects Arica as inferior and African
characters dont have as much depth
- Portrays Europeans as victims alongside
Africans
Bibliography
L: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
L: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Conrad
L:https://books.google.ca/books?id=G6rdYf3qhlkC&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=joseph+conrad+when+i+grow+up+i+shall+go+there
&source=bl&ots=rxYds2-aOL&sig=JjIZ3G_N96RGkwEp_K0dWM1aD4Y&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT5YPQ4azTAhVi94MKH
Qd2CkMQ6AEIRjAH#v=onepage&q=joseph%20conrad%20when%20i%20grow%20up%20i%20shall%20go%20there&f=false
A, K, L: http://www.biography.com/people/joseph-conrad-9255343
K https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Conrad
K http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/joseph-conrads-tragic-predicament/
A:https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/api/datastream?publicationPid=uk-ac-man-scw:1m2768&datastreamId=POST-PEER-REVIE
W-PUBLISHERS-DOCUMENT.PDF
http://conrad-centre.w.interiowo.pl/pages/chronology_en.html
A http://www.itiscannizzaro.net/Ianni/booksweb/sitodarkness/papers/francescomario.htm
A http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/conrad_heart_of_darkness.htm
Ahttp://rawlangs.com/2012/12/27/multilingualism-and-literature-10-authors-who-write-in-other-languages/
A https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/h/heart-of-darkness/critical-essays/use-of-the-frame-tale
A http://www.mantex.co.uk/2014/03/18/joseph-conrad-prose-style/
A Joseph Conrad at http://writersinspire.org/content/joseph-conrad by Dominic Davies
K http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/conrad/chron.html
K http://conrad-centre.w.interiowo.pl/pages/chronology_en.html

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