Joseph Conrad: 705 books

Scritto nel 1911, Sotto gli occhi dell’Occidente è un testo cruciale per la comprensione del pensiero e della biografia di Conrad. Prendendo le mosse da una storia di spionaggio e tradimento, di politica e coscienza, l’autore mette in scena il contrasto fra un io pubblico e uno nascosto, fra...

'I have heard no end of tales of his strength, his audacity, his fidelity...incorruptible! It is indeed a name of honour for the Capataz of the Cargadores of Sulaco.' One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo enacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American...

Once regarded as comparatively minor amongst Conrad's works, Victory has grown in reputation. Its depiction of the central character, Axel Heyst, and his renunciation of the world, is influenced by Conrad's reading of Schopenhauer.

Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.[citation needed] It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his Uncle Tadeusz, and the writing of Almayer's...

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the...

Originally published as a serial, Nostromo is set in a fictional South American country where the outbreak of civil war puts the mining town of Sulaco in turmoil. Giovanni Battista Fidanza, known as Nostromo, is given the task of smuggling out a large amount of silver to keep it from the revolutionaries. Conrad...

Las hermanas lo empezó a escribir Conrad en otoño de 1895 y lo abandonó en la primavera de 1896. Se publicó en 1928, cuatro años después de su fallecimiento. En los únicos siete capítulos de la novela, divididos muy claramente en dos partes, una, sobre un solitario y atormentado pintor ucraniano,...

The tale of a man's inability to escape his self-delusion and the tragic results that ensue, Almayer's Folly unfolds with the lush prose and keen psychological insights for which its author is renowned. Set in nineteenth-century Borneo, the novel recounts the brief rise and protracted fall of Kaspar...

Reflecting Conrad's genius for narrative that focuses on the quest for inner truths, "The Arrow of Gold" is an exploration of the dangerous appetites of men and of human vulnerability, as well as a profound meditation on the emotional boundary between people. Boasting a cast of extraordinary and eccentric...

When Willems stepped off the straight and narrow path of his own peculiar honesty he thought it would be a short episode - a sentence in brackets, so to speak - in the flowing tale of his life. But Willems was wrong, for he was about to embark on a voyage of discovery and self-discovery that would...

Joseph Conrads Meisterwerk; Englisch und Deutsch. Eine Erkundungsfahrt zu den dunkelsten Abgründen und äußersten Möglichkeiten der menschlichen Seele, in denen das absolut Böse Gestalt und Wirklichkeit gewinnt. [siehe auch Joerg K. Sommermeyer, Nachwort, S. 237 ff.]

Ein Klassiker der Weltliteratur›Lord Jim‹ ist neben der Erzählung ›Herz der Finsternis‹ das wohl bekannteste Werk Joseph Conrads. Das Meer und die Menschen, die es bereisen, sind das große Thema dieses Klassikers. Lord Jim trifft als Offizier an Bord der "Patna" eine fatale Entscheidung....

"Geschichten vom Hörensagen" vereint die wichtigsten Erzählungen Joseph Conrads.Selten erzählt Joseph Conrads direkt: Erzähltes wird weitererzählt, Perspektiven verschoben und vertieft. So entstehen die für Conrads Werk charakteristischen "Geschichten vom Hörensagen", ein...

Conrad's autobiography, which tells of his writing, his childhood, education and perspectives on literature.