The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
ISBN: 9780393090192
出版社: W. W. Norton & Co.
出版年: 1971-4
页数: 384
定价: GBP 7.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His outsider's eye gave him special insights into the moral dangers of the great age of European empires. In his prefactory note to _The Nigger of the Narcissus,_ Conrad wrote, "A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. And art itself may be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect. . . ."
作者简介
约瑟夫·康拉德，1857年12月3日生于波兰，在上流社会的家庭中度过了童年生活。后他逃到了马赛，在那里他曾先后在许多只船上做工。在一艘英国船上当水手时，他只懂6个英语单词。20年后他成为世界著名的用英文写作的作家。《吉姆爷》（1900年）和《神秘参与者》（1912年）体现了典型的康拉德笔下的人物。他们是在一个多少有些疯狂的世界上，进行着单枪匹马斗争的人们。他精通英语，擅长航海。他把他全部的爱都倾注在描写海员的书中，描写在神秘的刚果河上航行的《黑暗的中心》（1902年）是他最负盛誉的小说。1924年8月3日，约瑟夫·康拉德去世，终年67岁。