The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad by John Stape
English | March 11, 2008 | ISBN: 1400044499, 1400095867 | EPUB | 400 pages | 6.1 MB
English | March 11, 2008 | ISBN: 1400044499, 1400095867 | EPUB | 400 pages | 6.1 MB
In this authoritative, insightful biography, we see the modernist master Joseph Conrad as a man who consistently reinvented himself. Born in 1857 in the Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor, traveling to the Far East and Africa, and eventually settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as a novelist.
John Stape describes a man with a deep sense of otherness, a writer who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of modernism. With his exceptional understanding of Conrad, Stape succeeds in casting a new light on the life of a man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.