Joseph Conrad

Den yttersta gränsen berättar historien om den åldrade och oförvitlige kapten Whalley som genom omständigheternas makt blir skeppare på en nergången fraktångare i Malackasundet. Vilka följder det kommer att få anar han inte. Med obeveklig konsekvens utvecklas händelserna mot en dramatisk klimax, men som alltid hos Conrad ligger spänningen inte bara på det yttre planet utan också i de psykologiska och moraliska konflikter som är skeendenas dolda drivkraft. Och bakgrunden är det hemlighetsfulla havet och den tropiska djungelns täta väv av mörker och myllrande liv...

In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and discussion. Heart of Darkness grew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power. Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul.

In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and discussion.

Conrad's foresight and his ability to pluck the human adventure from complex historical circumstances were such that his greatest novel, Nostromo - though over one hundred years old - says as much about today's Latin America as any of the finest recent accounts of that region's turbulent political life.

This novel is considered to be one of Conrad's major works and is close in subject matter to The Secret Agent. It is full of cynicism and conflict about the historical failures of revolutionary movements and ideals.

In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, Conrad invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds.

Der Flussdampferkapitän Marlow fährt im Auftrag einer belgischen Handelsgesellschaft den Kongo hinauf. In den auf seinem Weg liegenden Handelsposten, von der Gesellschaft gedacht als >>Leuchtfeuer auf der Straße zum Besseren>wie eine Schlange>Herz der Finsternis>schweren, stummen Bann der Wildnis>seine Seele war wahnsinnig>Das Grauen! Das Grauen!>Ich riß mich zusammen und sprach langsam. >Das letzte Wort, das er aussprach, war - Ihr Name.

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the ‘shadow-line’ between youth and adulthood. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, Conrad's novella was written at the start of the Great War when his son Borys was at the Western Front, and can be seen as an attempt to open humanity’s eyes to the qualities needed to face evil and destruction.

Dark allegory describes the narrator's journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad's finest, most enigmatic story.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is the second of the projected eight-volume edition comprising all the surviving letters of Joseph Conrad. Once completed the edition will have assembled over 3,500 letters, one third of them as yet unpublished and many others only published before in inaccurate versions. The period covered by this volume, 1898–1902, was one of considerable achievement and anxiety for Conrad. The birth of his first child, the death of Stephen Crane, the murder of a friend's son, an encounter with an early X-ray machine, imperial wars in Cuba and South Africa - these events forced Conrad to face the problems of identity in terms of family, nation, history, and the cosmic order. This is also the period of 'Youth', 'Amy Foster', 'Typhoon', Lord Jim, and 'Heart of Darkness'. Often funny, always thoughtful, full of verbal energy even in the toils of severe depression, the letters in Volume Two present Conrad at a crucial though vulnerable moment of his life and literary career.

Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.

Joseph Conradin (1857-1924) tunnetuin romaani kuvaa siirtomaavalta-ajan norsunluukauppaa Afrikassa ja sen ympärillä pyöriviä häikäilemättömiä saalistajia, juonia ja korruptiota. Pimeyden sydän on ennen kaikkea kertomus norsunluuvälittäjä Kurtzista, miehestä, joka Afrikkaan tullessaan uskoo omaavansa korkeat ihanteet, mutta joka nopeasti menettää suhteellisuudentajunsa ja sortuu mielihaluihinsa. Ennen pitkää Kurtz aloittaa harhaisen matkansa niin oman mielensä kuin Afrikan pimeään sydämeen.

'Twixt Land and Sea Tales is a classic collection of sea stories by Joseph Conrad. . Joseph Conrad has come into his own. The three stories contained in this volume take rank with the most mature and romantic of his work. The charming love and adventure of the life which he depicts in remote places confirm the growing belief that he is among the greatest of living creative writers.

Author Joseph Conrad described, in his essay collection The Mirror of the Sea (1906) and his novel The Arrow of Gold (1919), having, during his time in Marseilles, France, smuggling arms to Spain for the Carlist supporters of Carlos de Borb n y de Austria-Este, pretender to the Spanish throne. Although it likely he was involved in something other than weapons.