| 单词 | Joseph Conrad |
| 例句 | Something from Joseph Conrad sprang to my mind, although I cannot seem to remember what it was at the time. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Four decades later, Samuel Eliot Morison, twice a Pulitzer Prize ‘According to Joseph Conrad, the violence was of culinary origin. “ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She insults the senator’s wife when discussing the movie “Apocalypse Now”: “You’re aware it’s based on Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness,’ ” she explains grandly. What really happened at those famous Georgetown dinner parties 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr. le Carré is maybe the most eccentric constructor of fiction in English literature since Joseph Conrad. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z The narrator, portrayed by Black, is the kind of guy who will go on at length about Joseph Conrad’s semicolon usage. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z One might say he is the Joseph Conrad of the East, but such a claim would misrepresent the extraordinary powers -- and life -- of this wonderful writer, and selfless human being. World literature tour: Indonesia 2011-07-18T11:22:40Z Backed by government and guns, the scientists prove to be colonialists by another name, an idea that the filmmakers bat around a bit, including in allusions to Joseph Conrad’s novella “Heart of Darkness.” Review: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Crosses a 1933 Classic With ‘Apocalypse Now’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It is also, as this sort of adventure tends to be, a parable, with strong family ties to the work of Joseph Conrad and Werner Herzog. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z The countryside, the landscape of thick river and dense forest that is commemorated in the fiction of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, still feels close. T Magazine: Beyond the Melting Pot 2011-05-16T19:45:36Z Dr. Lepora likens Dr. Gill to Kurtz in Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” going slowly mad in the bush, but he is also furious at the lack of logistical and moral support coming from her. | 'Living in Emergency': Machete Wounds and Malaria in Global Trouble Spots 2010-06-03T22:08:00Z At Harvard, where he completed his Ph.D., he wrote a dissertation on Joseph Conrad under Harry Levin, a pioneer of comparative literature. The Restless, Eclectic and Contradictory Passions of Edward Said 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The death ship also turns up in many of his drawings and prints in settings reminiscent of those in Joseph Conrad’s tales of woe and tragedy on the fringes of European empire. An H.C. Westermann Retrospective Melds Humor and Provocation 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In our capital city, there is no Virginia Woolf Road, or Joseph Conrad Avenue, or Wittgenstein Square, or Auden Street – though Kirchstetten, the Austrian village where Auden spent his summers, has an Audenstrasse. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z The light of pure reason, Joseph Conrad liked to say, resembles electricity in being cold. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z For sailors, according to Joseph Conrad, "their home is always with them – the ship; and so is their country – the sea". The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z Theatre O's distinctive physical style is brought to bear on Joseph Conrad's classic story of violence, exploitation and betrayal. Edinburgh festival 2013: our critics' picks 2013-07-15T05:59:01Z Filmed in shimmering black and white, with dashes of surreal color, it’s as if Guy Maddin and Kenneth Anger adapted one of Joseph Conrad’s nightmares for a sexploitation producer. ‘The Wild Boys’ Review: Women as Boys, and Violence as Art 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Based on a novella by Joseph Conrad, Scott's first film was The Duellists, a costume drama about the obsessive rivalry between two cavalry officers in the Napoleonic wars. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z I didn’t feel like I had to find the best Joseph Conrad story, I could find a good Joseph Conrad story and move on. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z Another disappointment was “The Secret Agent,” Christopher Hampton’s 1996 adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel. Bob Hoskins, British Actor, Dies at 71 2014-04-30T16:19:57Z A first edition of Joseph Conrad’s “Arrow of Gold,” signed by the author. Alice McDermott Is Reading ‘Frankenstein’ for the First Time 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z The Marías household was liberal and intellectual, and Javier devoured books, particularly tales of adventure by Joseph Conrad and Robert Louis Stevenson. Javier Marías, to Many the Greatest Living Spanish Novelist, Dies at 70 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z Black African writers were in short supply back then, but Rudyard Kipling, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and Joseph Conrad were readily available. Author of ‘The Paris Wife’ reimagines the world of aviator Beryl Markham 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Joseph Conrad gave a reading at the London Library. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z When one dreamed of bread even now, Joseph Conrad agreed with her, it was not the rough black bread of childhood. “An Evening with Joseph Conrad” 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The central event is the death of the writer Joseph Conrad at his country home just outside Canterbury in August 1924. Debut fiction: The Tiger's Wife by T?a Obreht; When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman; Today by David Miller ? reviews 2011-03-20T11:43:01Z It also has allusions to Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Kong: Skull Island’ and ‘Signed’ 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z In particular, he reacquaints himself with Joseph Conrad, “the writer who reached political adulthood before any of the other writers of his time, and when they did, they reached only to his knee.” Clive James’s ‘Last Readings’ review: A critic’s final homage to literature, life 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “This is all about possession,” said the writer Cynthia Ozick, who translated Grade poetry and has written about the resistance of Joseph Conrad’s widow to publishing her husband’s work. Chaim Grade?s Yiddish Manuscripts Unearthed 2010-05-17T21:21:00Z Anton was for Anton Chekhov, the "poet of loneliness," and "Joseph" for Joseph Conrad, who penned a motto Rushdie tried to follow: "I must live till I die." Salman Rushdie dismisses latest death threat 2012-09-19T16:58:59Z Played by Benoît Magimel with shambling delicacy, De Roller is like the French cousin of a character you might find in a Graham Greene novel or a tale by Joseph Conrad. ‘Pacifiction’ Review: Trouble in Paradise 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z French rather than German was always spoken at home, English being the future writer’s third language, as it was for Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov. Review | ‘Sybille Bedford’ is a gossipy appreciation of an oft-overlooked literary great 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z From Joseph Conrad to Samuel Beckett, some writers have found their voices in a language not their mother tongue. Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Maybe Joseph Conrad, who set a creepy story, “A Smile of Fortune,” there after visiting in 1888. On Mauritius With a Non-Jet-Set Wallet 2010-04-03T03:02:00Z If you read Joseph Conrad, you're not surprised to learn he was born a Pole; there's an underlying oddness to his prose, however correct, whereas Koestler's tone is pure tweed from Savile Row. Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z He comes to choose “Joseph Anton” by combining the names of two of his favorite writers, Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. “Joseph Anton”: Memoir as noir 2012-11-05T21:58:00Z Writers able to choose their working languages—Joseph Conrad, Jorie Graham, Vladimir Nabokov—often end up writing in English, because, as Conrad reportedly put it, “English is so plastic.” Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z It has prose of a caliber that we haven’t seen since Joseph Conrad in his short stories. Werner Herzog on Why You’ll Never Find Him on Facebook or Twitter 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z I was a literature student at Oxford, and I did parodies of famous writers — Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad. From Selina to Stalin: The man behind ‘Veep’ talks satire and cynicism 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In other arenas of jeopardy, on the high seas, Joseph Conrad was a sea captain. Against type: Writers with other careers 2012-11-26T15:30:05Z Joseph Conrad: the centrepiece of the sale is Conrad’s handwritten manuscript of Typhoon, which will have an estimate of between £300,000-500,000. Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z “APOCALYPSE NOW” Lee nods to “Apocalypse Now,” Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam-set riff on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” in a number of ways. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The book takes its name from Mr. Rushdie’s alias while he was in hiding, an amalgamation of the names of favorite authors — Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The idea for an animated feature set in the Pacific Islands was conceived five years ago by Musker, who was inspired by the novels of Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad and paintings by Paul Gauguin. How Disney's Positioning Moana as the Ultimate Anti-Princess 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z I see why Henry James and Joseph Conrad admired him so. How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Suppose, to avoid citing contemporary names, we were giving this award in 1923, and found ourselves arguing whether Marcel Proust was "the best", or James Joyce, or Thomas Hardy, or Joseph Conrad. The damnable task of being a Man Booker International prize judge 2011-03-30T14:46:06Z These cables were read at the New York court investigation, and Joseph Conrad, who attended some of the hearings, began referring to Ismay as “the luckless ‘Yamsi.’ They really have no shame: From the Koch brothers to Woody Allen, how bad actors justify themselves 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Charles Dickens, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, all are here—plus a mass of fascinating and forgotten popular literature—their cultural meanings perceptively analysed, if a little doggedly at times. Grey and dreichy 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Seven years after their shipboard conversations, Joseph Conrad — who else could it have been? — would dedicate his most famous novel, “Lord Jim,” to Galsworthy. Review | The literary tastemaker who helped bring Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster to light 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z He often was compared to Joseph Conrad, with whom he shared a dark awareness of moral fragility, and to Ernest Hemingway, another chronicler of people adrift in an unforgiving world. Robert Stone, award-winning author of ‘A Hall of Mirrors,’ ‘Dog Soldiers,’ dies at 77 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z When Joseph Conrad first began to publish in the 1890s, his tales of the sea, such as “Youth” and “Typhoon,” were regularly compared to those of the older writer. Review | William Clark Russell’s ‘The Wreck of the Grosvenor’ is a transporting nautical adventure 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Gregarious and immensely likable, Walpole eventually counted Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and, a bit later, Bennett’s sometime critic Virginia Woolf among his good friends. He met Hitler, was mocked by Maugham, but what of Hugh Walpole’s books? 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The first is based on a Joseph Conrad novel called Victory written in 1982. BBC to air forgotten Pinter scripts 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z I had by this time published a book on Joseph Conrad, but even Blackwell's, that great bastion of the unreadable academic treatise, didn't invite me to a signing session. On the perks and pitfalls of signing books 2012-07-31T08:55:34Z Why does a writer who, on one page, excoriates Joseph Conrad for cliché, for the sin of “in the twinkling of an eye,” so blandly deploy “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed” — and worse? Martin Amis Offers the ‘Inside Story’ of His Relationships With Three Famous Writers 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a heady stew of gothic revenge tale and colonial critique that draws on everything from Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to H Rider Haggard and Joseph Conrad. Naysayers be damned! Tom Hardy's Taboo is a work of Wicker Man genius 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The nonstop action embraces ghosts and secret codes, the search for an accursed diamond, murder charges, impossibly thrilling chase scenes, wrongful imprisonment and descriptions of storms at sea that Joseph Conrad would envy. Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z You’re reading along, and suddenly Philip Roth or Joseph Conrad or Wallace Stevens says something that makes it clear you are not part of the kingdom. David Simon, J. Cole, Patricia Lockwood and Others on Social Issues as Manifested in Art 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z He shows the important literary influences on Fitzgerald, writers like Joseph Conrad, who was terribly important to the eventual shape of Gatsby. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z Here is where Mrs. Wharton resembles Joseph Conrad and Henry James, for the love scenes in this book are fully worthy of those two men of genius. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This is indeed the outline of Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novella “Heart of Darkness” — though Americans might be more familiar with Francis Ford Coppola’s gonzo film adaptation, “Apocalypse Now.” Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Vargas Llosa came to Casement not through the Peruvian connection, but through reading a biography of Joseph Conrad. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty , who has died of lung cancer aged 81, was a writer in the tradition of William Golding and Joseph Conrad. Barry Unsworth obituary 2012-06-08T17:14:33Z In the living room, he shows you his books — he loves Victor Hugo, Jack London and Joseph Conrad, and he will embark on “Moby-Dick” in the off-season. Driving to Work With Keith Hernandez, the Real Mr. Met 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Dream III: I find myself in a library filled with unknown masterpieces by Henry James, Joseph Conrad and others. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z When I published a book on Joseph Conrad in 1978, a reviewer pointed out that the character in Nostromo whom I said shot himself in the head actually shot himself in the chest. The Hay Q&A 2010-05-31T21:00:00Z Joseph Conrad declared Scott Moncrieff’s version to be better than the French original, and F. Scott Fitzgerald called it a “masterpiece in itself”. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He taught courses on literature; Joseph Conrad, especially, was an endless fascination to him. A Study of Edward Said, One of the Most Interesting Men of His Time 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Doubtless, though, The Iron Lady will meditate on what Joseph Conrad wrote: "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." Meryl Streep playing Margaret Thatcher ? what's not to like? 2011-02-08T20:30:31Z This “sisters are doin’ it for themselves” reading of Alice also comes with a coda, one that seems inspired more by Joseph Conrad than by Carroll. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z Glittered with allusions to Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Jules Verne, Chloe’s journey is a compendium of every possible disaster, leavened with a Gilbert & Sullivan sensitivity. James Morrow’s satiric novel ‘Galápagos Regained’ takes on Darwin and God 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z He was a self-styled heir to Joseph Conrad, and a legitimate one. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z The memoir’s title, cobbled together from the first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, is the alias he used while under the fatwa. Q. and A.: Salman Rushdie 2012-09-18T16:49:30Z The year after that, Joseph Conrad sat looking into his lens, unable to altogether conceal his quiet, exile’s anxiety. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z My last Great Book was “Nostromo,” by Joseph Conrad, which is admirable in all kinds of ways, but not as great as “Austerlitz,” by W. G. Sebald, which I seem to reread every two years. Richard Lloyd Parry: By the Book 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z FR Leavis did, when he enrolled Lawrence in the "great tradition" of the English novel, comprising Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James and Joseph Conrad. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” On Earth Day, a Cartoonist Glances Back at Rachel Carson’s Classic 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Joseph Conrad wrote indelibly about the power of the Hero with a Thousand Faces – an ur-hero who's living a mundane life when he's faced with a challenge through which he can discover his greatness. From Snow White to Brave: the evolution of the Action Princess 2012-06-26T16:21:04Z Garnett, who also encouraged Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Edward Thomas, was one of the least conservative literary figures of his day. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z In his classes, McPhee regularly asks students to trim a dozen lines from Joseph Conrad or tighten up the already concise Gettysburg Address. A master class in writing from John McPhee 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z But it has fueled an extraordinary career as a novelist who’s not only reinvented the espionage thriller but also claimed his rightful place as an heir to Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. Le Carré, the Con Man’s Son: Writer, Liar, Survivor, Spy 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The rediscovered British recording of "Typhoon," a 1902 novella by Joseph Conrad about a steamship captain, was one of three full-length books to be recorded as an audiobook, and the first “literary” audiobook. Long-lost audiobook - one of the earliest ever published - discovered in Canada 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I lost an entire first edition of the works of Joseph Conrad and about 20 percent of my father’s collection, despite the best efforts of my ex-wife and stepchildren to salvage what they could. To Ride Again Another Day in Colorado 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Gray has compared the story to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness while also claiming it will be “the most realistic depiction of space travel that’s been put in a movie”. The early favourites: who might be winning Oscars in 2020? 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Or else he would venture into the streets, drawing, for example, the nearby German hospital built for immigrants in the 1840s, where, he informs me, Joseph Conrad was once admitted. Leon Kossoff's love affair with London 2013-04-27T10:00:04Z “He’s like a Joseph Conrad hero from the 19th century. He’d be a tragic figure in another time.” David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Joseph Conrad kept a copy of the book on his bedside table and drew on it for his own works, including Lord Jim. Alfred Russel Wallace, the forgotten man of evolution, gets his moment 2013-01-20T00:06:58Z I then went on to Joseph Conrad’s sardonic novel of pretense and betrayal, “The Secret Agent,” E.F. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Lee adopted the name Joseph for professional use in homage to his favorite author, Joseph Conrad. Can a Big Government Push Bring the Nobel Prize in Literature to South Korea? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In 2021, she won the Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski Literary Prize, given to a Ukrainian writer under 40, and started a small literature festival in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Dies After Kramatorsk Strike 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Achebe challenged simplistic representations of Africa in books like Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.” Your Thursday Briefing: DeSantis’s Presidential Run 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Great writers in the tradition of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Patrick O’Brian have used the self-contained world of a ship and its crew to tell stories of fear, greed and rebellion. As Scorsese preps his "Flower Moon," David Grann's new book takes to the high seas 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The title came from the pseudonym he used while in hiding, taken from the first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov. Salman Rushdie is attacked onstage in Western New York. 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z What may be Joseph Conrad’s greatest novella carries the “N-word” in its title. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Joseph Conrad, for example, was born in Ukraine. Putin’s real goal in Ukraine isn’t territory 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Putin, it often seems, is only the latest exponent of what Joseph Conrad called Russian officialdom’s “almost sublime disdain for the truth.” Macron Tries to Avert a European War and Reshape European Security 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “The sea and the earth are unfaithful to their children,” Joseph Conrad wrote, bleakly but all too realistically. Opinion | Fred Hiatt deserves to be remembered long after he is gone 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z He was not alone: Then and for years after, most literature students in the United States encountered Africa only through such Western works as Joseph Conrad’s Congo-set novella “Heart of Darkness.” Charles R. Larson, pioneering scholar of African literature, dies at 83 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z A few years later, when Welles was put under contract at RKO studios to film Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” Mr. Lloyd was among the crew to tag along. Norman Lloyd, character actor who dangled from Lady Liberty in ‘Saboteur,’ dies at 106 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z “Calling him a spy writer is like calling Joseph Conrad a sea writer, or Jane Austen a domestic-comedy writer.” John le Carré, spy novelist transcended pulp genre to literary art, has died 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z His father's name was not on his birth certificate, but on his records, it was listed as Joseph Conrad. The hidden story of African-Irish children 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z They descend into an atavistic savagery, something not only Freud but Joseph Conrad and Primo Levi knew lurks beneath the thin veneer of civilized society. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z I read “The Open Boat”, Stephen Crane’s gripping tale of survival at sea, Joseph Conrad’s haunting account of doubleness, “The Secret Sharer”, and Julio Cortázar’s ingenious Möbius strip of a story, “Continuity of Parks”. Short and sweet: the best stories to read right now 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z The hedge fund managers, oligarchs and corporate CEOs on college trustee boards don't care about Marxist critiques of Joseph Conrad. Don't be fooled by the "cancel culture" wars: Corporate power is the real force behind racism 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z East Kalimantan serves as a gateway to Borneo’s mythical jungles, the backdrop to Joseph Conrad novels and home to the native Dayak tribes once feared for headhunting. Endangered orangutans could be the biggest losers as Indonesia builds a new capital 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z He credits this period, during which he rendered Laurence Sterne, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov and others into Spanish, as crucial in his artistic development. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Racism and sexism are not incompatible with art, as Chinua Achebe showed in his attack on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” as racist. Opinion | Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The book I’m ashamed not to have read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Tommy Orange: ‘Maybe Jack Kerouac made more sense for a different generation’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z I don’t believe in not teaching Joseph Conrad. A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s when utility/safari strays into Joseph Conrad territory, as the version Melania Trump favored for her visit to Africa did last fall, that it becomes problematic. Why ‘Safari’ Style is No Longer Politically Correct 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The Library of Congress classification system places Jhabvala alongside Indian-origin writers in English, but as a Continental European writing in English she could just as well have been shelved with Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z There were a number of unremarkable films including a TV adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and, bizarrely, an erotic film for cable TV, Full Body Massage. Nicholas Roeg: From tea-maker to director 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z “It seems all too apt that this whale should appear in the turbid waters of the ominously named Gravesend, site of the opening of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.” Daily briefing: A new wave of Indigenous genetic scientists 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z If I’m writing against anyone—if I’m engaging with anyone in writing back to the canon—it’s pretty explicitly Joseph Conrad, to whom I refer repeatedly in the novel. A Novelist and Critic on Fictionalizing Zambian History 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The Academy compared him to Joseph Conrad and extolled his ability to "transform rage into precision." Obituary: VS Naipaul 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z When he started out with his travel shows, Bourdain wrote that he thought of the works of writers Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. Books were good to Anthony Bourdain — but TV was even better 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z For some readers, loving Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad requires some peacemaking with the not-quite-human representations of black people in those texts. Who Gets to Decide What Belongs in the ‘Canon’? 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z When asked in 1897 why he didn’t write in Polish, Joseph Conrad replied: “I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle.” What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Juxtaposing hues of painterly green and devilish red, she brings "Zama" to a lyrical, terrifying close worthy of Werner Herzog or Joseph Conrad. Lucrecia Martel's 'Zama' is a feverishly brilliant tale of European colonialism and its discontents 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z EL James and Dan Brown have been pitted against some of the greatest names in literature, including Joseph Conrad and Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a search to find America’s most loved novel. EL James v Margaret Atwood? The search for America's best-loved novel is on 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Bruria grew up in Tel Aviv, where her father was a legendary literary figure, a novelist and the translator of Joseph Conrad and Bertolt Brecht. Andras Forgach: 'My mother was a Cold War spy' 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z But as Joseph Conrad he became one of the finest English writers. Books of the Year 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Raised speaking Polish and French, Joseph Conrad didn’t learn English until he was 21. Joseph Conrad, the first novelist of globalisation 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z He tells stories from the lives of Joseph Conrad, the translator Edward FitzGerald, and the radical diplomat Roger Casement. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He notes that this kind of conjuring is widespread among novelists, and cites examples including Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, and Hilary Mantel. The Voices in Our Heads 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z At one point we had to read Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and write what we felt about the book. Chazz Palminteri Moves From Mean Streets to a Tuscan-Style Villa 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z If Sarmaşık sounds like something from Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad, it’s because Karaçelik contends with similarly primal themes—societal order, guilt, redemption. What a Turkish Film Can Teach Us About American Fear 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z As Joseph Conrad wrote in Heart of Darkness: “The word ‘ivory’ rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. China must act decisively to eradicate the ivory trade 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Hoping to emulate Joseph Conrad, he went to sea in the Swedish merchant marine at 16. Henning Mankell, Dean of Scandinavian Noir Writers, Dies at 67 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z One of Joseph Conrad's pivotal works, "The N— of the Narcissus," was first published in 1897 under an innocuous title, "The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle." Feedback: Let's talk 'black-ish' 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z I give them thirty-two lines of Joseph Conrad “going up that river . . . like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.” The Art of Omission 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z He finally suggested calling them “secret sharers,” after the short story by Joseph Conrad. I love you, I hate you, I need you! Lessons in creativity from the Beatles, Picasso and Steve Jobs 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z The first two - William Conrad, and The Malay Spell - were named in deliberate homage to his two literary inspirations: Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. The French spy who wrote Planet of the Apes 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z "Joseph Conrad called that place 'The Heart of Darkness', but I thought there was a lot of light there." The virus detective who discovered Ebola 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z There's no Mr Kurtz, driven mad by the atrocities of enslavement, as in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Bloomsbury's forgotten novel 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The descent of Jason Brody, from party guy to vengeful killer, is brutal and convincing – it is the story arc of the slasher flick, grafted into a Joseph Conrad novel. Top 25 games of 2012: five to one 2012-12-21T09:56:33Z Both men also tutored last summer’s excellent, and more satisfying, seminar on Joseph Conrad’s “The Secret Agent.” Crotty On Education September Update 2012-09-01T03:58:03Z “The stigma around mental health for men is even greater than it is for the general population,” said Joseph Conrad, the chief executive of Cactus. Advertising: A Humorous Approach to Grim Issue of Suicide Prevention 2012-07-09T00:12:36Z He was carrying “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad at the time. Ivan Karp, Pop Art Dealer, Dies at 86 2012-06-29T04:22:58Z The Congo has long had a knack for bringing out the worst in foreign adventurers, from King Leopold II of Belgium to Joseph Conrad's fictional Kurtz. Peacekeepers at War 2012-06-23T02:45:14Z Joseph Conrad has said "Man on earth is an unforeseen accident which does not stand close investigation." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z His is the crowning achievement in the century of fiction that began with Jane Austen and, happily, has not yet terminated with Joseph Conrad. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Mr. Joseph Conrad, born in Poland, is already an English classic. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Similarly, in Edwardian London, new media shaped the careers of Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, and countless others. The book is not dead, it's just shape-shifting 2011-07-09T23:05:11Z We sometimes wonder just how and what Joseph Conrad would have written if he had never gone to sea. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z In our own days we see what a power James has been; a subtle breath on the waters of creation; Paul Bourget, Edith Wharton, even Joseph Conrad, and many minor English novelists. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The essay on Joseph Conrad appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1906. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Quiller-Couch and Joseph Conrad are two more modern writers who have achieved in many cases the level of great stories of adventure. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z She said: 'Author Joseph Conrad summed it up best, I feel, saying: "Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men." Said & Done 2011-01-30T00:05:00Z He owned classics like Epictetus, the Koran and the Bible, and kept up with contemporaries like H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Charles Darwin and Victor Hugo. In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic 2010-04-19T01:27:00Z "Turner, a new Turner, who has heard the music of Wagner and read the magic prose of Joseph Conrad." Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Joseph Conrad, novelist, child of English and Continental literature, is not more unaccountable than any other literary genius. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z On a sailing-ship plying between Adelaide and the Cape he met and made a friend of the novelist, Joseph Conrad, then still a sailor. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors In a prefatory letter to Mr. Joseph Conrad he presents a synthesis of the trilogy, and explains why this, of his several books, is the first which he wishes to associate with his proper name. Tourcoing Joseph Conrad’s latest yarn is the essence of romance. The So-called Human Race What I once wrote of Henry James might be said of Joseph Conrad: "He is exquisitely aware of the presence of others." Ivory Apes and Peacocks Joseph Conrad, a Pole, stands side by side with Thomas Hardy in his mastership of contemporary English fiction. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war He read Pater and Swinburne and Meredith, Bernard Shaw and Galsworthy and Joseph Conrad, and had quite definite ideas about all of them. The Wooden Horse Perhaps he was unaware, then, that a similar experience had happened to Joseph Conrad. When Winter Comes to Main Street He would not have enjoyed Joseph Conrad, who uses unblushingly the locution, “except you and I.” The So-called Human Race Ford Madox Hueffer was born in 1873 and is best known as the author of many novels, two of which, Romance and The Inheritors, were written in collaboration with Joseph Conrad. Modern British Poetry Mr. Sabatini first went to school in Switzerland and from there to Lycee of Oporto, Portugal, and like Joseph Conrad, he has never attended an English school. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Joseph Conrad, Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov, and Patrick MacGill all were sailors for many years before they began to write. The Merry-Go-Round Joseph Conrad interpreted this atmosphere when he referred to it as having "a stillness of life that did not resemble peace,—the silence of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention." An African Adventure I've been longing for this opportunity to read Henry James, knowing that he was Joseph Conrad's master. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Joseph Conrad's novels he shelves next to Stevenson's, significantly. Old Valentines A Love Story And in the same way Mr. Joseph Conrad is not so representative of the contemporary world as is Mr. Bernard Shaw or Mr. Wells. Personality in Literature Consciously or unconsciously Mr. G. Colby Borley has produced a story that in matter and treatment is so palpably a reflection of Joseph Conrad that the likeness simply refuses to be ignored. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 In their main outlines they are not unlike the fundamental assumptions of Joseph Conrad. A Book of Prefaces The Queen's Rest-Cure is a greater book than The Rescue by Joseph Conrad, because the sinister thrill of suspense yields to the ever-fresh romance of young love. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 Mr. O'Neill has had experience of the sea, like the great Englishmen, Mr. Masefield and Mr. Joseph Conrad. The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Joseph Conrad, so we learn from the March Bookman, has written a preface to a cook book about to be published by Mrs. Conrad. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Once the Athenæum, apparently staggered by the discovery that Joseph Conrad existed, reviewed a novel of his under the rubric of "Literature," instead of with other novels under the rubric of "Fiction." Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Swift, Sterne, Jane Austen, Thackeray and the Dickens of Bleak House were the idols of my youthful imitation, but the contemporaries of my early praises were Joseph Conrad, W.H. Nocturne Joseph Conrad has the power of fear ever at the command of his romantic imagination. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance And the words of Joseph Conrad sprang, so easily to his mind, seeming to sum up perfectly this brutal sham of Man's creation. Oberheim (Voices) I have been reading again that most delightful of all autobiographies, "A Personal Record," by Joseph Conrad. Shandygaff Thus in the present generation, in letters, they have selected Joseph Conrad, a great artist, but not the only artist on the island. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 A dash of Miss Austen, Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Daudet; flavored perhaps with coal smoke from Indianapolis, spindrift from the Maine coast and a few twanging chords from the Princeton Glee Club. Mince Pie A similar motive is used, with immeasurably finer effect, by Joseph Conrad in his story of the disappearance of the sailor at the lonely inn in the mountains of Spain. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance He recalled the words of Joseph Conrad, describing the way the primeval forests of Africa must have looked upon the coming of the white man to steal its ivory. Oberheim (Voices) Or, to come down to more recent days, think of Captain Joseph Conrad at his lodgings in Bessborough Gardens, lighting that apocalyptic pipe that preceded the first manuscript page of "Almayer's Folly." Shandygaff When I was floored I had just got to a part which disclosed the epical influence of Mr. Joseph Conrad. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 His leaping, audacious line is like the narrative prose of a Maupassant or a Joseph Conrad. Promenades of an Impressionist Guy de Maupassant's short stories remain, with those of Henry James and Joseph Conrad, the very best of their kind. One Hundred Best Books Mr. Joseph Conrad is one of the strangest figures in literature. Old and New Masters I used to lug volumes of Joseph Conrad down to the West-Street piers to give them to captains and first mates of liners, and get them to talk about the ways of the sea. Shandygaff The Reviewer has the strange effrontery to select Mr. Joseph Conrad's "Secret Agent" as an example of modern ugliness in fiction: a novel that is simply steeped in the finest beauty from end to end. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 It seems only yesterday that I wrote a review—the first long and appreciative review he had—of Mr. Joseph Conrad's "Almayer's Folly" in the Saturday Review. An Englishman Looks at the World He rewrites almost as pertinaciously as Joseph Conrad, Henry James, or Brahms. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages Mr. Joseph Conrad is a writer with a lure. Old and New Masters England is fortunate in counting Joseph Conrad among her own novelists; although a Pole by birth he is one of the greatest masters of English style. Selected Polish Tales On one of these trips he met Joseph Conrad, then a sailor, and they became warm friends. Halleck's New English Literature As Joseph Conrad has said, no novelist describes the world; he simply describes his own world. Essays on Russian Novelists He was the model for a number of fictional characters in books by his friend, Joseph Conrad, and also by G. B. Shaw. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 Joseph Conrad.—This son of distinguished Polish exiles from Russia, Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski, as he was originally named, was born in the Ukraine, in 1857. Halleck's New English Literature |
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