Joseph Conrad
Writing
Born 1857-12-02
Died 1924-08-03
Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]
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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; December 2, 1857 – August 3, 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. 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 then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. Conrad was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature. While some of his works have a strain of romanticism, he is viewed as a precursor of modernist literature. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the French and later the British Merchant Navy to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a worldwide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many authors. Films have been adapted from or inspired by Conrad's Victory, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, An Outcast of the Islands, The Rover, The Shadow Line, The Duel, Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, Almayer's Folly.
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Filmography
Writing
44 credits
Apocalypse Now
Centre Play
Folio
The Secret Agent
Lord Jim
An Outpost of Progress
Nostromo
Sabotage
The Secret Agent
Mountain of Gold
Heart of Darkness
Swept from the Sea
Lone Wolf
Tropical Nights
Almayer's Folly
Victory
The Shadow-Line
Heart of Darkness
The Secret Agent
Outcast of the Islands
Victory
Laughing Anne
The Saliva Milkshake
Morgen
Gabrielle
Almayer's Folly
Farornas paradis
Dangerous Paradise
Under Western Eyes
Naufragio
Victory
The Secret Agent
Heart of Darkness
Windigo
The Silver Treasure
The Lost Valley
The Rescue
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
The Shadow Line
The Young One
Lord Jim
The End of the Tether
Un reietto delle isole
Acting
10 credits
Omnibus
The Duellists
Secret Sharer
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Jutro
The Secret Sharer
Face to Face
The Golden Twenties
An Outpost of Progress
Her Return
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