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299 pages, Hardcover
First published March 13, 2013
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Joseph Conrad
3,122 books4,868 followersJoseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that his fictional works, written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century, seem to have anticipated later world events.
Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on the national experiences of his native Poland—during nearly all his life, parceled out among three occupying empires—and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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September 16, 2020„Żyjemy tak jak śnimy – samotnie”
October 21, 2024
Mogło być gorzej, ale w sumie przez większość czasu byłam w innym świecie, więc to chyba średnio dobrze świadczy o tej lekturze.
November 10, 2024
Mam z tą książką relację jak z ojcem - czyli jej nie mam.
W skrócie ładny, dobry koncept i teoretycznie styl nie najgorszy, ale jednak czegoś tutaj brakowało.
W skrócie ładny, dobry koncept i teoretycznie styl nie najgorszy, ale jednak czegoś tutaj brakowało.
July 6, 2020
"Jądro Ciemności" oceniłem już osobno. Natomiast "Lord Jim" to opowieść, która mimo mistrzowskich obrazów, jakie Conrad potrafi wytworzyć swymi słowami w wyobraźni czytelnika, nie porywa. Jest, niestety, koszmarnie rozwleczona i pełna powtórzeń i zapętleń. Nic więc dziwnego, że jako lektura do dziś męczy młodych, chyba w większości niedojrzałych do tematu czytelników. Również pojęcie "honoru" jako wartości nadrzędnej, określającej prawdziwego gentlemana (jednocześnie będącego - a jakże kolonizatorem, mizoginem i rasistą - mocno się już zdewaulowało.
Jest w tej historii coś porywającego, ale na pewno nie na tyle, by zafascynować się postacią Jima w takim stopniu jak narrator.
Jest w tej historii coś porywającego, ale na pewno nie na tyle, by zafascynować się postacią Jima w takim stopniu jak narrator.
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