Word: conrades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never could invent an effective lie," Novelist Joseph Conrad once confessed. In this richly documented study, Author Jerry Allen demonstrates-with details assembled over a period of ten years from the four corners of the world -that most of Conrad's novels are scene-for-scene, character-for-character transmutations of the extravagant adventures of his youth...
...adventures began when Conrad (real name: Teodor Joózef Konrad Korzeniowski), the orphaned son of Polish intellectuals, defied his guardian and went to sea at the age of 16. Nostromo, for instance, describes with photographic precision a revolution he witnessed in Central America while serving as an apprentice aboard a French barque carrying guns to the insurgents. The Nigger of the Narcissus narrates, day by day, a stormy voyage that Conrad once took around the Cape of Good Hope; the "nigger" was an old black seaman born a slave in Georgia who died at sea as he does...
...most spectacular of Conrad's adventures is related in The Arrow of Gold. The adventure began when Conrad, then only 19, was running guns off the Spanish coast for the Carlist Pretender to the Spanish throne. Pursued by a Spanish warship, the captain ran the ship on the rocks. All aboard swam safely to shore, hid in a cellar until the way to France was clear...
Everywhere Meg went, in fact, a varied assortment of the nation's own version of noblemen and -women were eager to greet her. In San Francisco, Hello, Dollyl's Carol Channing showed up for an English-Speaking Union luncheon, and Bullfight Expert Barnaby Conrad graced an exclusive dinner given by Socialite Whitney Warren atop Telegraph Hill. Down at the Bistro in Beverly Hills, the banquet list of Hollywood aristocrats included Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Danny Kaye and a couple of Queen Elizabeth's loyal subjects named Burton. Margaret promptly upset her security guards in San Francisco...
...today's literature there are few "great deaths." Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Conrad gave death a tragic dimension. Hemingway was among the last to try; his heroes died stoically, with style, like matadors. Nowadays, death tends to be presented as a banal accident in an indifferent universe. Much of the Theater of the Absurd ridicules both death and modern man's inability to cope with it. In lonesco's Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It, the plot concerns a corpse that grows and grows until it floats away in the shape of a balloon-a balloon...