Suspense - Conrad, Joseph
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Suspense is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922, shortly before his death. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars and takes place primarily in Italy. It focuses on the experiences of an English naval officer, Cosmo Latham, who becomes involved in a plot surrounding Italy's struggle for independence. Though Conrad passed away before completing Suspense, the fragments of the novel reflect his characteristic themes, including questions of duty, honor, and personal sacrifice. Despite its unfinished state, it remains an interesting piece of his later work and…mehr

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Suspense is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad, written between 1921 and 1922, shortly before his death. The novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars and takes place primarily in Italy. It focuses on the experiences of an English naval officer, Cosmo Latham, who becomes involved in a plot surrounding Italy's struggle for independence. Though Conrad passed away before completing Suspense, the fragments of the novel reflect his characteristic themes, including questions of duty, honor, and personal sacrifice. Despite its unfinished state, it remains an interesting piece of his later work and offers insight into his evolving literary focus during that period.
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Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a marked accent), he was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an impassive, inscrutable universe. Joseph Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of nineteenth-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroiccharacters have influenced many authors, including T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, and more recently Salman Rushdie. Many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, Conrad's works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French andBritish merchant navies to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while profoundly exploring human psychology. Appreciated early on by literary critics, his fiction and nonfiction have since been seen as almost prophetic, in the light of subsequent national and international disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Joseph Conrad
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