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Not a barrel of laughs
From: The Spectator
Date: 20070421
Author:Leith, Sam
JOSEPH CONRAD by Zdzislaw Najder Boydell & Brewer, £25, pp. 808, ISBN 9789571133472 . £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655
What a peculiar life it was: born in Poland, exiled to Russia, orphaned at 11, and sent to sea at 16. A decade and a half of salt water and solitude in the merchant marine. Then the rest of it spent as an English gent, writing literary novels in his third language (English) under the strong influence of the writers of his second (French). And yet, there he is, slapbang in the Great Tradition.
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