Nostromo A Tale of the Seaboard (eBook, ePUB) - Conrad, Joseph
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Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel.

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Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast of a fictitious South American country. Many regard the imagined setting of the novel to be some of Conrad's finest work. The characters in the novel are also more highly-developed than those of his other novels, and were inspired by a group of mental patients Conrad had met shortly before beginning the novel.
Autorenporträt
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 guided a non-English sensibility into English literature. He was assigned British nationality in 1886 but always regarded himself a Pole. He enrolled in 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.
Joseph Conrad
Foto: George Charles Beresford
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Süddeutsche Zeitung - Rezension
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Besprechung von 13.07.2024

In den Häfen
spuken die Geister
In den Abkürzungen steckt die Moderne. Es gibt noch Segelschiffe, aber das Kommando über die Handelsaktivitäten im Hafen von Sulaco führt die OSN, die Oceanic Steam Navigation Company. Die Dampfschiffe werden von Kapitalströmen umspült. In Joseph Conrads „Nostromo“, 1904 erschienen, klingt der Name des Titelhelden nach Magie, die südamerikanische Republik Costaguana wie erfunden (und ist es auch), und in der Silbermine spuken die Geister der Schatzsucherei. Aber nicht die Geister rumoren, sondern die Befreiungsbewegungen der indigenen Bevölkerung. Die politischen Akteure verbünden sich mit dem Pressewesen. Conrad überführt den Abenteuerroman in die industrielle Welt. In der Abgründigkeit der Figuren steckt deren Kritik. „Geschäftsleute sind oft ebenso lebhaft und einfallsreich wie Liebende.“ Das ist ein Schlüsselsatz.
LOTHAR MÜLLER
Joseph Conrad:
Nostromo. Roman.
Aus dem Englischen
übersetzt von Julian
Haefs und Gisbert
Haefs. Mit einem
Nachwort von Robert
Menasse. Manesse
Verlag, München 2024.
560 Seiten, 38 Euro
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