The several lives of Joseph Conrad
By: John Stape.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781400044498
Subjects: Conrad, Joseph, -- 1857-1924
Description: The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is the first new biography in more than a decade of one of modern literature's most important writers - whose work remains widely read and acutely relevant eighty years after his death. In this authoritative, insightful book, we see Joseph Conrad as a man who constantly reinvents himself. Born in 1857 in Berdichev, Ukraine, he left home early and worked as a sailor out of Marseilles; traveled to the Far East and Africa with the British merchant navy; and, finally, in 1891, settled in England, beginning a precarious existence as a novelist and family man. Here is a Conrad for our moment: a man with a deep sense of otherness; a writer with multiple cultural identities who wrote in his third language and whose fiction became the cornerstone of literary Modernism." "With his exceptional knowledge and understanding of Conrad, and drawing on unpublished letters and documents, John Stape succeeds in casting a new light on the life of a willfully enigmatic man who remains one of the greatest writers of his, and our, time.
Notes: "Selected bibliography : Conrad": p. 337-338.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-353) and index.