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Some Reminiscences
Joseph Conrad
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At that time there was an eight-hours' drive, if not more, from the railway station to the country house which was my destination.
"Dear boy" (these words were always written in English), so ran the last letter from that house received in London,—"Get yourself driven to the only inn in the place, dine as well as you can, and some time in the evening my own confidential servant, factotum and major-domo, a Mr. V.S. (I warn you he is of noble extraction), will present himself before you, reporting the arrival of the small sledge which will take you here on the next day. I send with him my heaviest fur, which I suppose with such overcoats as you may have with you will keep you from freezing on the road."
Sure enough, as I was dining, serve. . . Read More
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This book leaves me feeling as though I’ve had a long and rewarding conversation with Joseph Conrad. I’m in the process of reading all his books in the order in which they were written, and with each of his novels I’ve become more and more impressed with this man’s mastery of his adopted language –
Conrad's sentences and stories are amazing enough; what really knocks me out is that they are written in his THIRD language. I'm not sure what I want to read more: a biography of this singular man or more of his fiction.
I found out about the existence of this memoir by Joseph Conrad only recently, from a very negative GR review, which presented "A Personal Record" as a messy pile of disjointed ramblings of zero interest.
Nevertheless, as Joseph Conrad happens to be my hero and inspiration in the crazy enterprise of
A rather self-congratulatory but helpful look at a genius-of-letters' internal life. Loved the references to Napoleon and the good stock of quotes on a writer's quest for vibrance. The interplay of life at sea and novel making, or as Conrad puts it, "tale-telling", is rich in portraying a writer's e
Poprawy ludzkości nie da się uzyskać inaczej jak terrorem i przemocą.
I owe you an apology, Mr Conrad. I wasn't really familiar with your game.
Joseph Conrad, czy jak pokątnie go nazywamy, Józef Korzeniowski, zabiera nas w tłum ludzi. Zmagają się oni z dylematami moralnymi i terrorami współczesnego św
Joseph Conrad's A Personal Record is, like The Mirror of the Sea a series of anecdotes from the past. In the case of A Personal Record, the concentration is on the start of his two careers, as a master mariner and as a writer. Whenever my intention began to flag, Conrad found another anecdote which
My issue, dated 1920, is actually a reprint of Conrad's original "Personal Record," and it includes a new preface along with various, unrelated letters to newspaper editors about current events.
"A Personal Record" is a long, intimate, and at times self-deprecating introspective into Conrad's creativ
A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad gave great insight into the man who wrote the classic "Heart of Darkness". I must say, if one plans on reading this, they must get the copy that has "A Familiar Preface" by Conrad, who spends some time justifying some of his decisions in how he wrote the book to th