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A 5 page paper which examines Joseph Conrad's story
"Nostromo" from various perspectives. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAnostrm.rtf
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lives," was born "Teodor J?zef Konrad Korzeniowski, near Berdychev, Poland (now in Ukraine), the son of a Polish noble" (Anonymous Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), Conrad). From the age of 16 on
he was an independent man, working on ships, running guns, and becoming "involved in a love affair that brought him to the brink of suicide. He then entered the British
merchant service, becoming a master mariner and a naturalized British subject in 1886; a few years later he changed his name to sound more English" (Anonymous Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), Conrad).
He continued to travel, gaining experiences, until, in 1895, he "published his first novel and married Jessie George" (Anonymous Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), Conrad). During his life he "produced 13
novels, two volumes of memoirs, and 28 short stories, although writing was not easy or painless for him. Perhaps only another writer can fully appreciate his comment regarding the completion
of the novel Nostromo (1904), which many critics regard as his masterpiece: an achievement upon which my friends may congratulate me as upon recovery from a dangerous illness" (Anonymous Conrad,
Joseph (1857-1924), Conrad). Much of his work was considered filled with bleak outlooks, and presented in "a rich, vivid prose style with a narrative technique that makes skillful use of
breaks in linear chronology. His character development is powerful and compelling" (Anonymous Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924), Conrad). In the following paper we examine Nostromo, arguing two points concerning theme. Summary
Interestingly enough, "Conrad often employed a narrator who filtered all the action for the reader, but in Nostromo, considered by many to be his finest novel, he dispensed with this
technique" (Anonymous Literature at the Turn of the Century (1890 - 1918) endcent.htm). It is a novel that is filled with "both adventure and romance," and possessed of a "Modernist"
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