Jugend - Der geheime Teilhaber: Zwei Erzählungen (textura)

by Joseph Conrad, Ilija Trojanow (Foreword), Richard Fenzl (Translator)

"Wir sind doch nicht in einer Abenteuergeschichte für Jungen", widersprach ich. Sein spöttisches Flüstern machte mich betroffen. "Wahrhaftig nicht!" Dieser Band vereint zwei der aufregendsten Erzählungen von Joseph Conrad. Beide Male geraten die Protagonisten durch unglaubliche Ereignisse in höchste Gefahr und begegnen dabei sich selbst. Ihre Schiffe sind auf See zum Halten gekommen, doch damit beginnt erst eine ganz andere Reise, die Reise des jugendlichen Herzens zu seinen Abgründen und die Entdeckung seiner eigenen Stärke. Es sind Initiationsgeschichten von farbigem Realismus und symbolischer Wahrheit - zwei Erzählungen der Weltliteratur, die hier in glänzenden Übersetzungen neu präsentiert werden.

129 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 20, 2013

About the author

Joseph 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.