“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
Joseph Conrad
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About this author
Joseph Conrad (born
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
) was a Polish-born English novelist who today is most famous for Heart of Darkness, his fictionalized account of Colonial Africa.
Conrad
left his native Poland in his middle teens to avoid conscription into
the Russian Army. He joined the French Merchant Marine and briefly
employed himself as a wartime gunrunner. He then began to work aboard
British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a Master
Mariner, and served more than sixteen years before an event inspired
him to try his hand at writing.
He was hired to take a steamship
into Africa, and according to Conrad, the experience of seeing firsthand
the horrors of colonial rule left him a changed man. His introspective
need to come to terms with his experience lead to Heart of Darkness, which was followed by other fictionalized explorations of his life.
He
has been lauded as one of the most powerful, insightful, and disturbing
novelists in the English canon despite coming to English later in life,
which allowed him to combine it with the sensibilities of French,
Russian, and Polish literature.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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