Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
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Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led mehr anzeigen to his exile. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. After the publication of his first novel, Almayer's Folly (1895), Conrad gave up the sea. He produced thirteen novels, two volumes of memoirs, and twenty-eight short stories. He died on August 3, 1924, in England. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Korzeniowski, Józef Teodor Konrad
- Andere Namen
- Conrad, Joseph
- Geburtstag
- 1857-12-03
- Todestag
- 1924-08-03
- Begräbnisort
- Canterbury Cemetery, Canterbury, England, Grossbritannien
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Polen
Grossbritannien - Land (für Karte)
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Berdyczów, Ukraine
- Sterbeort
- Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, Grossbritannien
- Todesursache
- heart attack
- Wohnorte
- Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, UK
Lwiw, Polen
Vologda, Russland
Marseille, Frankreich
Warschau, Polen
Chernihiv, Ukraine (Zeige alle 7)
Krakau, Polen - Ausbildung
- homeschooled
- Berufe
- Schriftsteller
Kurzgeschichtenautor
Segler - Beziehungen
- Conrad, Jessie (wife)
Curle, Richard (friend) - Kurzbiographie
- Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British 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 non-English 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 universe.
Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Numerous writers and critics have commented that Conrad's 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, among other things, on his native Poland's 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 European-dominated world—including imperialism and colonialism—and that profoundly explore the human psyche.
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Während sie auf einer Kreuzerjacht auf der Themse die Flut abwarten, erzählt der Seemann Charlie Marlow seinen Freunden, die Berufe ausüben, wie sie auch in kolonialen Handelsgesellschaften typisch sind, von seiner Reise als Kapitän eines Flussdampfers auf dem Kongo. Der bekannte und äußerst erfolgreiche Agent Kurtz leitet einen wichtigen Handelsstützpunkt, weit abgelegen im Zentrum des Elfenbeingebietes. Nun jedoch sind diese Station und somit auch die wirtschaftlichen Erträge aus dem Handel mit Elfenbein gefährdet, denn Kurtz ist krank und Marlow soll ihn mit dem Dampfer holen. Doch je weiter diese Reise auf dem Fluss führt, hinter dessen Ufern sich der dunkle, unwegsame Dschungel ausbreitet, desto dunkler werden auch die Eindrücke, die Marlow nicht nur in der Natur, sondern auch im menschlichen Verhalten sammelt.
Thema und Genre
Diese Erzählung, 1899 zunächst als Serie in einem Magazin veröffentlicht, 1902 als Buch, ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem europäischen Kolonialismus im späten neunzehnten Jahrhundert, der damit verbundenen Menschenverachtung und Grausamkeit gegenüber den ursprünglich dort lebenden Menschen und ihre Ausbeutung.
Charaktere
Neben einem namenlosen Ich-Erzähler der Rahmenhandlung ist es der Seemann Charlie Marlow, der seine eindrücklichen Erlebnisse auf seiner Reise zu einer abgelegenen Handelsstation schildert. Doch im Mittelpunkt seiner Geschichte steht Kurtz als zunächst omnipräsenter Schatten.
Handlung und Schreibstil
Der Seemann Charlie Marlow schildert Erlebnisse, Erfahrungen und auch Eindrücke, die ihn auch heute noch verfolgen. Chronologisch erzählt er von dieser abenteuerlichen Reise auf dem Kongo, beschreibt seine vielseitigen Gedanken über die Eindrücke der ihm fremden Natur und über den ihm vorerst noch unbekannten Agenten Kurtz, der ein besonderer Mensch sein soll.
Auch diese Geschichte des Schriftstellers Joseph Conrad hat autobiografische Hintergründe, seine Erfahrungen aus seiner aktiven Zeit bei der französischen und britischen Handelsmarine und vor allem die Erlebnisse seiner Kongo-Reise als Kapitän eines kleinen Dampfbootes.
Diese Ausgabe ist neu als Penguin Edition der Klassiker erschienen und in der editorischen Notiz am Buchende wird begründet, warum man die Sprache nicht unserem heutigen Verständnis angepasst hat, sondern die deutsche Übersetzung in der Sprache der ursprünglichen englischen Originalausgabe belassen hat. Dem kann ich persönlich nur zustimmen, denn Klassiker sind immer auch zeitlos gültige Dokumente der Zeit, in der sie verfasst wurden.
Fazit
Die Romane und Erzählungen von Joseph Conrad zählen zu den wichtigsten Werken der englischen Literatur des späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Diese Erzählung, längst ein Klassiker, war 1899 einerseits einer der ersten Beiträge zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kolonialismus, gleichzeitig ist es ein spannend zu lesender Abenteuerroman.… (mehr)