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In his "Author's Note" in this edition of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad provides a detailed explanation of the inspirational origins of his novel. There he relates how, as a young man of about seventeen, while serving aboard a ship in the Gulf of Mexico, he heard the story of a man who had stolen, single-handedly, "a whole lighter-full of silver". As Conrad goes on to relate, he forgot about the story until some twenty-five years later when he came across a travelogue in a used-book shop in which the author related how he worked for years aboard a schooner whose master claimed to be that very thief who had stolen the silver.
"More appalling than the fury of a wild beast . . . was the . . . savage purpose man alone is capable of."A classic tale by Joseph Conrad, made available once again. Conrad (1857-1924) spent his most formative years in France and sailing under the French flag. Napoleon loomed large in his imagination.Conrad worked for decades to capture the spirit of the Napoleonic era, yet only a handful of tales ever saw print.Written at the peak of his career, The Duel has its origins in a true story that captivated the world.A fast-paced drama that touches on essential Conradian themes of character, obsession, the death urge, and the cosmic irony of man's desires set against a vast and indifferent world.
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Eine der großen, großartigen Erzählungen von Joseph Conrad in einer neuen, zeitgemäßen Übersetzung.Das Thema der Erzählung ist hoch aktuell: Wie verhalten sich Menschen angesichts einer unausweichlichen Extremsituation? Wie bewahren sie sich darin ihre Menschlichkeit? In diesem Fall ist die Frage, wie sie sich gegenüber einer Gruppe von chinesischen Wanderarbeitern an Bord verhalten. Diese erinnern in ihrer Beschreibung weniger an Passagiere als an die Insassen eines heutigen Flüchtlingsboots.Conrad entführt uns in seiner Erzählung auf eine mitreißende, abenteuerliche Reise ins Südchinesische Meer. Es schaukelt auf dieser Schiffsreise derartig, dass man sich beim Lesen festhalten muss!Die Neuübersetzung stammt von Martin Regenbrecht.
Growing up on reading books on sea adventures, Jim constantly daydreams about becoming a seafaring hero, yet he has never faced any real danger. While he is serving aboard a vessel called the Patna, carrying Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, when the ship suffers damage and in danger to sink. With a storm approaching, the crew abandons her and her passengers to their fate.
Set in London in 1886, the novel follows the life of Adolf Verloc, a secret agent. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. He lives with his wife Winnie, his mother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Stevie. Stevie has a mental disability, possibly autism, which causes him to be excitable; his sister, Verloc's wife, attends to him, treating him more as a son than as a brother. Verloc's friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. Although largely ineffectual as terrorists, their actions are known to the police. The group produces anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P., an acronym for The Future of the Proletariat.Writing near the peak of the British Empire, Conrad drew, among other things, on his native Poland's national experiences and on 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.
The Secret Agent is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy against Britain. Verloc is also a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives and bric-a-brac. His friends are a group of anarchists of which Comrade Ossipon, Michaelis, and "The Professor" are the most prominent. The group produces anarchist literature in the form of pamphlets entitled F.P. - The Future of the Proletariat. Although a member of an anarchist cell, Verloc is also secretly employed by the embassy of a foreign country, but Mr. Vladimir, the new First Secretary in the Embassy is not satisfied with Verloc''s contribution. In order to redeem himself, Verloc must carry out an operation - the destruction of Greenwich Observatory by a bomb.
Herr Verloc steckt in der Klemme. Seine bequemen Einkünfte als Geheimagent der Regierung stehen auf dem Spiel. Denn sein neuer Vorgesetzter will sich nicht mehr mit den üblichen Berichten zufriedengeben. Ein spektakuläres Ereignis muss her, bei dem sich die Regierung als entschlossen und handlungsfähig zeigen kann ...Es geht wie bei einer Agentengeschichte zu erwarten um Täuschungen, aber es geht vor allem auch um Selbsttäuschungen. Die Figuren verstehen sich nicht oder sie verstehen sich falsch, sei es aus Naivität oder Borniertheit. Die Erwartungen, die sie an sich und andere stellen, erfüllen sich niemals, und dem gewinnt Conrad zahllose komische Momente ab. Conrad hält es hier wie Schopenhauer, für den das Leben zwar im Großen eine Tragödie, im Kleinen aber eine Komödie ist, bei der auch laut gelacht werden darf.Conrads Einblicke in die politische Instrumentalisierung von Terroranschlägen sind auch heute noch lesenswert.
"Heart of Darkness" remains one of the most provocative English novels of the twentieth century, exploring timeless themes such as: human depravity, racism, and madness. This edition is based on the one published in Conrad's collection of novellas in 1902 called "Youth."The darkness of the human heart is on full display as Marlow and Mr. Kurtz react to the jungles in the heart of Africa. The river that takes them into Africa's interior reveals to them all that the 'civilized' are hardly that.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) war ein Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft, der seine Werke in englischer Sprache verfasste. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind die Romane Lord Jim, Nostromo und Herz der Finsternis. Letzteres ist bis heute der meistzitierte und wirkmächtigste Roman. Conrad begann etwa 1890 seine Laufbahn als Schriftsteller. Als Kapitän eines Flussdampfers an den Stanley-Fällen des Kongo hatte er schweres Fieber bekommen und musste in einem Kanu an Land gebracht werden. Das Kanu kenterte, doch Conrad wurde gerettet. Conrad schuf ohne große finanzielle Mittel ein umfangreiches literarisches Werk. Er schrieb in englischer Sprache, die er erst mit 21 Jahren zu erlernen begonnen hatte. 1895 veröffentlichte er seinen ersten Roman Almayers Wahn. Lange Zeit war er auf Gönner angewiesen. Erst 1914 hatte er seinen literarischen Durchbruch mit Spiel des Zufalls. Seine Romane und Erzählungen zählen zu den berühmtesten Werken der britischen Literatur des ausgehenden 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Inhalt: • Das Ende vom Lied • Die Tremolino • Gaspar Ruiz • Jugend • Weihe
Meldung: "Bombe im Greewich-Park. Halb zwölf Uhr. Wirkung der Explosion noch bis Romney Road und Park Place bemerkbar. Ungeheures Loch im Boden. Ringsherum Reste eines Menschen, in tausend Stücke zerrissen. ..."Der Titel 'Der Geheimagent' ist der Band 20 in der Buchreihe 'Historical Diamond'. Der Autor Joseph Conrad befuhr als britischer Kapitän die Schauplätze seiner späteren Romane. Conrad versteht es, Atmosphäre zu schaffen. Er zählt damit zu den großen Meistern der Literatur. Sein Roman 'Der Geheimagent' wurde von Christopher Hampton 1996 verfilmt mit Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette und Gérard Depardieu in den Hauptrollen.In der Buchreihe 'Historical Diamond' werden die Juwelen bedeutender klassischer Autoren in einer qualitativ hochwertigen, aber preiswerten Buchausgabe in ungekürzter Fassung neu herausgegeben. Das Themenspektrum umfasst spannende Romane, u. a. historische Romane, Krimis, Fiktion, Abenteuer und Entdeckungsreisen.
Das Herz der Finsternis ist in eine Rahmenhandlung eingebettet: Auf der nächtlich an der Themsemündung in Gravesend stillliegenden Seeyacht Nellie erzählt der ehemalige Seemann Marlow seinen vier Freunden, die das Band der See eint, eine Episode aus seinem Leben. Er beschreibt seine Sehnsucht, die letzten weißen Flecken des Globus kennenzulernen, und wie sie nach einigen Mühen dazu führte, dass er Flusskapitän wurde. Der Leser kann unschwer erkennen, dass die Geschichte am Kongo zu Zeiten des Kongo-Freistaats spielt. Marlow, der den Indischen Ozean, den Pazifik, das Gelbe Meer bereits kennt, reist also entlang der Küste eines ihm unverständlichen Afrika zur Mündung des großen Stroms und übernimmt, flussaufwärts oberhalb der Stromschnellen, seinen Flussdampfer, der zwischenzeitlich auf Grund gelaufen und leckgeschlagen ist. Joseph Conrads Erzählung Heart of Darkness, in der Hochzeit des Imperialismus entstanden, beleuchtet Praxis und Wirkung der Kolonialpolitik auf Betroffene und Ausführende kolonialer Macht kritisch, bleibt aber selbst nicht frei von Vorurteilen. Die komplexe Thematik ist in Heart of Darkness erfahrbar. Handelnde Charaktere und Personen als Spiegel europäischer Kolonialpraxis am Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts geben der imperialen Idee ein Gesicht und sind weit über das Ende extremistischer Expansionsideologien zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in Betrachtung neokolonialer Tendenzen immanent geblieben. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) war ein Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft, der seine Werke in englischer Sprache verfasste. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind die Romane Lord Jim, Nostromo und Herz der Finsternis. Letzteres ist bis heute der meistzitierte und wirkmächtigste Roman.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) war ein Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft, der seine Werke in englischer Sprache verfasste. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind die Romane Lord Jim, Nostromo und Herz der Finsternis. Letzteres ist bis heute das meistzitierte und wirkmächtigste und wurde im Rahmen der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Diskurse zu den Themen Postmoderne und Postkolonialismus häufig diskutiert und neuartig interpretiert. Der Roman "Der Geheimagent: Eine einfache Geschichte" gehört mit "Nostromo" und "Mit den Augen des Westens" zu den politischen Romanen Conrads. Hinter der Ebene des Spionageromans verbirgt sich eine komplexe und ironische Auseinandersetzung mit dem kleinbürgerlichen Leben in der modernen Großstadt. Conrad selbst hielt ihn für einen seiner besten Romane.
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