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Joseph Conrad
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Conrad's brilliant depiction of Marlow's journey int the heart of the Belgian Congo is one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century.
On a boat tethered in the Thames, Marlow, the Captain, recounts to his crew his experiences in Africa when he led an exxpedition into the inpenetrable and mysterious core of the jungle. The darkness he encounters is both moral and physical: Mr Kurtz, the agent dealing in ivory whom he is to meet, is the embodiment of corruption, decay and exploitation.
As an outsider, Marlow finds himself drawn to the charismatic Kurtz, but after witnessing the malevolence and tyranny that emanate from him, Marlow is forced to look into his wn soul and reassess his values.
Seeking independence and adventure, Conrad became a sailor. He served on French and British merchant ships, travelling to Africa, Australia, the West Indies and the Orient. Among his many adventures at sea were, it is thought, some extralegal smuggling activities. In France he had a love affair with a Basque adventuress named Dona Rita, over whom he is supposed to have fought a pistol del with a Captain Blunt, an American. He is said to have wounded Blunt, who in turn put a bullet through Conrad's body just above the heard. Conrad later explained that the wound to a relative by saying that he had attempted to commit suicide.
In 1886 he was naturalized as a British citizen, and in 1889 he went to London, where he wrote his first novel, Almayer's Folly. His subsequent works, many of which drew upon his sea experiences, include Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902), Youth (1902, Typhoon (1903), Nstromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), The Secret Sharer (1910), Under Western Eyes (1911) and Chance (1913). The man who was twenty-one years old before he spoke a word of English is now regarded as one of the superb English stylists of all time. Conrad died almost literally at his desk in 1924, at the age of sixty-six.
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