Joseph Conrad's novel Chance was published in 1913. It is narrated by Charles Marlow and other narrators, and it is unique among the author's works in that it places a strong emphasis on a female character: Flora de Barral. The narrators try to interpret various events in Miss de Barral's life, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral. When her father is released from prison, he joins them on the ship, and the novel reaches its conclusion. The plot alternates between human will and purposeful activity and an opposing "apathetic" force that dismisses the significance of human action.…mehr
Joseph Conrad's novel Chance was published in 1913. It is narrated by Charles Marlow and other narrators, and it is unique among the author's works in that it places a strong emphasis on a female character: Flora de Barral. The narrators try to interpret various events in Miss de Barral's life, the daughter of a convicted swindler named Smith de Barral. When her father is released from prison, he joins them on the ship, and the novel reaches its conclusion. The plot alternates between human will and purposeful activity and an opposing "apathetic" force that dismisses the significance of human action.
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist, considered as one of the prominent novelists to write in the English language. He was born on 3 December 1857. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he came to be considered a master prose stylist who guide a non-English sensibility into English literature. He was assigned British nationality in 1886 but always regarded himself a Pole. He enrolled the French Merchant Marine and began to work on British ships, learning English from his shipmates. He was made a master mariner and worked more than sixteen years before an event motivated him to try his hand at writing. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that represents trials of the human spirit in the middle of an unexpressive, transparent universe. During his lifetime Conrad was praised for the assets of his prose and his offerings of dangerous life at sea and in foreign places. His works include the novels Almayer's Folly (1895), Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story 'Heart of Darkness ' (1902). He died in August 1924.
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