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English prose's enduring outsider
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19910505
Author:David Mehegan, Globe Staff
JOSEPH CONRAD
A Biography. By Jeffrey Meyers. Scribner's. Illustrated.
428 pp. $27.50.
Of novelists in English who spanned the end of the 19th and youth of the 20th centuries, Joseph Conrad retains unusual vibrancy and appeal to the dismasted modern spirit. It isn't only his arduous seafaring life -- more rugged by far than the young Hemingway's life -- that attracts readers and writers, nor his exotic settings and sensual, brooding atmospheres. More than these, Conrad's appeal is rooted in his loneliness, melancholy, moral seriousness, his sense of having nowhere to belong and his ...
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