Typhoon and the Shadow-Line - Joseph Conrad

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Résumé :
Typhoon: A Siamese-flagged steamer sails into a typhoon the worst calamity at sea. Captain Macwhirr s controversial decision to steer through it rather than turn around makes for an epic clash against the forces of Nature. With the ship s crew fearing the worst as it enters the tempest, the captain s steely resolve is put to acid test. The Shadow-Line: This semi-autobiographical tale of Joseph Conrad s maritime experience, peppered with mystery and morbidity, is also an exploration of the obscure shadow region where carefree youth transforms into responsible maturity....

Biographie:
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is considered as one of the best authors in the English language, despite the fact that he did not speak English effectively until his twenties. He became known as a master prose stylist who introduced a non-English sensibility into English literature. He authored novels and novellas, many of which take place at sea, about crises of human identity in what he perceived as an indifferent, incomprehensible, and amoral world. Conrad is regarded as a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, while his works also incorporate elements of nineteenth-century realism. His storytelling style and anti-heroic characters, such as Lord Jim, impacted a number of authors. Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences-during nearly all of his life, parcelled out among three occupying empires-as well as 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. Apollo took his kid to the Austrian-controlled region of Poland in December 1867, which had enjoyed significant internal freedom and self-government for the previous two years. After seeing Lwow and numerous smaller towns, they relocated to Krakow (Poland's capital until 1596), which is also in Austrian Poland, on February 20, 1869....

Sommaire:
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and short-story writer whose fiction became central to modern English literature. Born J?zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 in what is now Ukraine, Conrad spent years at sea before turning to fiction in English, his third language. His maritime experience, exile, multilingual background, and knowledge of colonial trade shaped a body of work concerned with moral pressure, isolation, imperial violence, loyalty, betrayal, and the darkness beneath civilized surfaces.Conrad's major works include Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. His fiction is known for psychological depth, complex narration, political unease, and a profound suspicion of imperial certainty. In Almayer's Folly, his first novel, many of those later concerns are already visible: the damaged European abroad, the limits of colonial ambition, and the disastrous gap between illusion and reality....