阅读约瑟夫·康拉德 Joseph Conrad在小说之家的作品!!! |
1874年他前往马赛,在一艘法国商船上工作。这标志着康拉德航海的始发。其后,他在海上生活达20年,其阅历广及全世界的许多具有异域风情的地方。
1878年,康拉德加入了英国的商船队,并且开始学习英语,在船队的服务中,他得到了稳步的提升,并于1886年加入英国籍。在前往刚果的灾难性航行中所获得的经历给康拉德留下了极深刻的印象,并构成了他的小说《黑暗之心》(1902)的大背景。
有别于与他同时代的作家,康拉德的小说喜欢写孤独的主人公,让笔锋集中描述个体的人物及其遭遇到的难题;他笔下的热带和丛林地带背景中的人物更显得形单影只,这种效果是其它背景所绝难达到的。许多人认为,在探索有关生存的困惑、生存的潜意识及生存意义的丧失一类主体方面,康拉德是20世纪小说的先驱者。无疑,康拉德以小说的形式在更为具体化的层面上谴责了欧洲殖义者的贪婪与残酷。
康拉德逝世于1924年8月3日。
He is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honor.
Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors.
Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo.
Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul.