Joseph Conrad Writer

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature.While some of his works have a strain of Romanticism, as a whole they are viewed as modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors, including D. H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Scott Fitzgerald'>F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Gerald Basil Edwards, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry, William Golding, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Italo Calvino, Gabriel García Márquez, J. G. Ballard, Chinua Achebe, John le Carré, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Hunter S. Thompson, J. M. Coetzee, Stephen Donaldson and Salman Rushdie.Films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Duel, "The Secret Sharer", Victory, The Shadow Line, and The Rover.Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French and British merchant navies to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while plumbing the depths of the human soul. Appreciated early on by literary cognoscenti, his fiction and nonfiction have gained an almost prophetic cachet in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Alias (AKA)	Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Birth date	December 03, 1857
Birth name	Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
Birth place	Russian Empire , Berdychiv , Kiev Governorate
Nationality	Poles
Date of death	August 03, 1924
Place of death	Bishopsbourne
Resting place	Canterbury

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Career start	1895
Career end	1923
genre	Literary modernism Psychological novel
notable work	Heart of Darkness The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' Lord Jim The Secret Agent The Secret Sharer Under Western Eyes Amy Foster The Lagoon Nostromo Typhoon (novel)