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Joseph Conrad's Many Lives
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910421
Author:Clark Blaise
JOSEPH CONRAD
A Biography
By Jeffrey Meyers
Scribners. 428 pp. $27.50
WE SHOULD have mastered Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) by now, but we haven't. Perhaps, given the twists and turns of Conrad's life, we never shall. A dozen years ago, Frederick Karl weighed in with the closest approach yet, a 1,000-page volume symptomatically titled Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives. The three lives, of course, are the Polish Youth, the Polyglot Sea-Captain, and the Mature British Novelist. Romantic Polish Catholic, wastrel French adventurer, repressed Englishman - where exactly, is our Joseph Conrad?
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