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Joseph Conrad: a chronicle.
From: National Review
Date: 19840615
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey
CONRAD HAD perhaps the most amazing and paradoxical career in English literature. He was born near Kiev, in what was then part of Russian Poland; spent his childhood exiled with his parents in northern Russia; was orphaned at the age of 11; went to France to become a sailor; tried to kill himself after gambling away all his borrowed money; became a Master in the British merchant marine; made a disastrous trip to the Congo; turned to writing after twenty years at sea; wrote in a language he had first learned as an adult; and contracted a bizarre marriage to an unattractive and ...
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