This novel inspired the acclaimed motion picture Apocalypse Now. His novel Heart of Darkness (1902), perhaps his best known and most influential work, narrates a literal journey to the center of the African jungle. In such works as Lord Jim (1900), Youth (1902), and Nostromo (1904), Conrad depicts individuals thrust by circumstances beyond their control into moral and emotional dilemmas. At 17 he went to sea, an experience that shaped the bleak view of human nature which he expressed in his fiction. Conrad was orphaned at a young age and subsequently raised by his uncle. His father, a writer and translator, was from Polish nobility, but political activity against Russian oppression led to his exile. He was born Jozef Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski on December 3, 1857, in the Polish Ukraine.
Joseph Conrad is recognized as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novelists. Peyrol (a master-gunner in the French republican navy, pirate, and for nearly fifty years "rover of the outer seas") attempts to find refuge in an isolated farmhouse (Escampobar) on the Giens Peninsula near Hyères.The story is about Peyrol's attempt at withdrawal from an action- and blood-filled life his involvement with the pariahs of Escampobar the struggle for his identity and allegiance, which is resolved in his last voyage. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same namePlot summaryThe story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, and the French-English rivalry in the Mediterranean. The Rover is the last complete novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 19. It was first published in 1923, and adapted into the 1967 film of the same namePlot summaryThe story takes place in the south of France, against the backdrop of the.
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