Joseph Conrad

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Produktbeschreibung

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne. Voguer sur la mer de Chine pendant la saison des typhons ne l'inquiète pas vraiment. Quand, pendant la traversée, il voit l'aiguille du baromètre chuter comme il ne l'a jamais vue auparavant, sa première réflexion est qu'un sale temps se prépare. La mer grossit et déjà le navire embarque de l'eau. Sur le pont inférieur, deux cents coolies chinois voyagent dans des conditions effroyables. Quand son second lui suggère de changer de cap pour éviter le gros temps, il refuse, un détour impliquant des frais supplémentaires pour l'armateur. Mac Whirr est-il complètement inconscient?...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MVP
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Französisch
• ISBN-13: 9782291032830
• Artikelnr.: 52814728

Autorenporträt

Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British citizenship in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a 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. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. Writing in the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's national experiences and his own experiences in the French and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that reflect aspects of a European-dominated world-including imperialism and colonialism-and that profoundly explore the human psyche.

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