検索キーワード： 著者 "Joseph Conrad" すべてのカテゴリー

Triple Adventures: Die Joseph-Conrad-Abenteuer-Hörbuch-Box. Drei seiner besten Werke - gelesen von Jean Farrell und Moritz Bendel. Sie erwartet über 15 Stunden spannende Unterhaltung mit: Jugend - Der Geheimagent & Das Herz der Finsternis. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) war ein Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft, der seine Werke in englischer Sprache verfasste. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind die Erzählung Jugend und die Romane Der Geheimagent und Herz der Finsternis. Letzteres ist bis heute der meistzitierte Roman und das wirkmächtigste Werk aus seiner Feder.

Adolf Verloc is a secret agent who provides information and takes care of arriving undercover agents of an un-named government through their embassy. He also runs a shady business selling pornography, comic books, contraceptives, and the like. As well as this, he’s a confidential informant to Chief Inspector Heat of the London police. His family consists of his wife, Winnie, her Mother, and his (presumably) autistic brother-in-law, Stevie.

Joseph Conrad was born on 3rd December 1857 in Berdychiv in the Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. His birthplace had been part of Poland which its neighbours dismembered into their own Empires. Conrad brought to English Literature both narrative mastery, compelling prose and fully formed characters as well as a deeper examination of the human psyche in a wealth of work. He wrote many novels, short stories, nonfiction, and memoirs which are rightly regarded today as some of the finest in English literature. Jospeh Conrad died on the 3rd August 1924 at Bishopsbourne, Kent in England.

A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own "shadowy ideal of conduct" on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, "the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and ...

Le fleuve Congo, dans 'Au cœur des ténèbres', est bien plus qu'un simple cours d'eau ; il est une métaphore de l'inconscient humain, de l'obscurité qui sommeille en chacun de nous. En remontant ce fleuve sinueux, Marlow entreprend un voyage intérieur, une exploration des profondeurs de son âme. Au fur et à mesure qu'il avance, les repères de la civilisation s'effacent, laissant place à un monde primitif et sauvage.

Este relato es considerado uno de los más convulsivos análisis sobre el espíritu colonial de Occidente. En “El corazón de las tinieblas”, Conrad nos habla de hombres blancos enfrentándose a las incongruencias de sus propios métodos. Una oscura historia sobre el viaje del marinero Marlow por las aguas de un gran río africano, el Congo. Su misión: ir en busca de un agente europeo, Kurtz, un empresario que se había vuelto loco en medio de la jungla. Francis Ford Coppola se inspiró en esta novela para su película Apocalypse Now, aunque ambientada en la guerra de Vietnam.

En 1906 un acontecimiento real, el intento de volar el Observatorio de Greenwich por parte de un anarquista llamado Martial Bourdin, inspiró a Joseph Conrad el tema de un relato magistral. Sobre el telón de fondo del Londres de comienzos de siglo, una ciudad monstruosa e indiferente, se desarrolla la historia de un fallido atentado que revela el turbio entramado formado por el terrorismo internacional, la acción de la policía y la diplomacia deshonesta.