Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

  • Birthday: 1857-12-02
  • Deathday: 1924-08-03
  • Place of birth: Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]
  • Also know as: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

Biography

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist. 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 (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly.

Filmography

Production

Swept from the Sea

1998

As Novel

Heart of Darkness

1993

As Novel

Sabotage

1937

As Novel

Victory

1996

As Novel

The Secret Agent

1996

As Novel

Almayer's Folly

2012

As Novel

Naufragio

1978

As Story

Laughing Anne

1953

As Novel

The Rescue

1929

As Novel

Mountain of Gold

2016

As Story

Victory

1940

As Novel

The Shadow Line

1973

As Original Story

The Young One

2016

As Novel

Lord Jim

1965

As Novel

The Shadow-Line

1976

As Story

Face to Face

1952

As Book

Dangerous Paradise

1930

As Novel

An Outpost of Progress

2016

As Writer

Morgen

1986

As Story

Tropical Nights

1931

As Novel

Victory

1919

As Novel

Heart of Darkness

1958

As Novel

Heart of Darkness

0000

As Novel

The End of the Tether

1973

As Novel

The Secret Agent

1992

As Novel

The Lost Valley

2017

As Writer

Lord Jim

1925

As Writer

Gabrielle

2005

As Novel

Farornas paradis

1931

As Writer

Her Return

1975

As Short Story

The Duellists

1977

As Novel

Windigo

1994

As Novel

An Outpost of Progress

1982

As Short Story

Lord Jim

2002

As Writer

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