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By Hugh Walpole
30 Apr, 2020
To any reader of the books of Joseph Conrad, it must be at once plain that his immediate experiences and impressions of life have gone very directly to the making of his art. It may happen often enough that an author's artistic life is of no importan
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To any reader of the books of Joseph Conrad, it must be at once plain that his immediate experiences and impressions of life have gone very directly to the making of his art. It may happen often enough that an author's artistic life is of no importance to the critic and that his dealing with it is merely a personal impertinence and curiosity, but with the life of Joseph Conrad, the critic has something to do, because, again and again, this writer deliberately evokes the power of personal reminiscence, charging it with the burden of his philosophy and the creation of his characters. With the details of his life we cannot, in any way, be concerned, but with the three backgrounds against whose form and colour his art has been placed, we have some compulsory connection. Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Karzeniowski) was born on 6th December 1857, and his birthplace was Ukraine in the south of Poland. In 1862 his father, who had been concerned in the last Polish rebellion, was banished to Vologda. The boy lived with his mother and father there until his mother died when he was sent back to Ukraine. In 1870 his father died. Less
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- 2010-08-03
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- 9781451000115
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