Joseph Conrad born Jampoacutezef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski 3 December 1857 ampndash 3 August 1924 was a PolishBritish writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties he was a master prose stylist who brought a nonEnglish sensibility into English literature Conrad wrote stories and novels many with a nautical setting that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive inscrutable universeConrad is considered an early modernist though his works contain elements of 19thcentury realism His narrative style and antiheroic characters have influenced numerous authors and many films have been adapted from or inspired by his works Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conradamp39s fictional works written largely in the first two decades of the 20th century seem to have anticipated later world eventsWriting near the peak of the British Empire Conrad drew among other things on his native Polandamp39s national experiences and on his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a...
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