Joseph Conrad: 33 books

«La suspense durerà per sempre», scrive introducendo il romanzo Richard Curle, l’amico fedele degli ultimi anni di Conrad, commentando l’appropriatezza e l’involontaria ironia del titolo. Non si riferisce alla suspense – che pure è presente in tutta l’opera – che gravava sull’Europa...

The Shadow-Line is a short novel being written from February to December 1915. The novella is notable for its dual narrative structure. The full, subtitled title of the novel is The Shadow-Line, A Confession, which immediately alerts the reader to the retrospective nature of the novella. The ironic...

Victoria (1915) es para muchos criticos la ultima de las grandes novelas de Conrad (El corazon de las tinieblas, Nostromo, El agente secreto), y tal vez la mas lograda.

Más que centrarse exhaustivamente en el desarrollo militar de la época, el autor conduce su cámara hacia dos jóvenes oficiales del 4º y 7º de Húsares: el ayudante de campo D´Hubert y el oficial del 7º, Feraud. Conrad nos señala los dos polos antagónicos, Caín con su Abel, para centrarse...

We knew him in those unprotected days when we were content to hold in our hands our lives and our property. None of us, I believe, has any property now, and I hear that many, negligently, have lost their lives; but I am sure that the few who survive are not yet so dim-eyed as to miss in the befogged...

The course of a young sailor’s life is forever changed when, in a moment of weakness, he, along with the ship’s crew, abandons his distressed ship and its passengers. Now deserted by his fellow crewmembers, Jim is left to face the consequences of their actions alone, and loses his sailing accreditation...

EXTRAIT: I M. Baker, second du navire le Narcisse, franchit d’un pas le seuil de sa cabine éclairée et se trouva dans l’ombre du gaillard d’avant. Au-dessus de sa tête, sur le fronteau de dunette, l’homme de quart piqua deux coups. Il était neuf...

La posada de las dos brujas pone en funcionamiento una estrategia narrativa particular. La historia es narrada por un lector. Ese lector dice que, en una librería de usa­dos de Londres, encontró un manuscrito de mediados del siglo XIX, en una caja de libros Viejos y de poco va­lor, y refiere la...

A revolutionary war raises many strange characters out of the obscurity which is the common lot of humble lives in an undisturbed state of society. Certain individualities grow into fame through their vices and their virtues, or simply by their actions, which may have a temporary importance; and then...

Of the five stories in this volume, "The Lagoon," the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the Malayan phase with its special subject and its verbal suggestions. Conceived in the same...

A classic story of sea-faring life at the turn of the century; Captain Macwhirr, estranged from his family and his crew, sails the Siamese steam Nan-Shan into the center of a typhoon.

To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril son of Isidor—Kirylo Sidorovitch—Razumov. If I have ever had...

Un jeune officier de marine, le lieutenant Jim, embarque comme second à bord d'un vieux cargo «bon pour la ferraille», le Patna, pour convoyer un groupe de pèlerins vers La Mecque. Dans le brouillard, le Patna heurte une épave. En inspectant la coque, Jim découvre un début de voie d'eau. Pris...

La posada de las dos brujas pone en funcionamiento una estrategia narrativa particular. La historia es narrada por un lector. Ese lector dice que, en una librería de usa­dos de Londres, encontró un manuscrito de mediados del siglo XIX, en una caja de libros Viejos y de poco va­lor, y refiere la...