Joseph Conrad by Jeffrey Meyers

Joseph Conrad by Jeffrey Meyers

The outlines of Conrad's life are well known - how he spent 20 years at sea and amassed the experience he would later transmute into some of the 20th century's finest and most original novels; how he became a great stylist in English, his third language and one he spoke at times incomprehensibly; and how he struggled for success and solvency while presenting himself in the - in fact outlandishly eccentric - guise of an English gentleman. The author reveals much here that is new on Conrad's Polish background, the Carlist Wars in Spain in which he was briefly caught up, his pro-semitism, his suicide attempt, his meeting with T.E.Lawrence, and - most importantly - his love affair with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson, who became a traitor in the World War II. He discusses for the first time an unpublished film scenario written by Conrad at the end of his life. There are also many new connections to be found here between characters in Conrad's novels and characters in his life.

Jeffrey Meyers has written extensively on literature, film, and art. He is the author of forty-eight books, including The Genius and the Goddess: Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe and biographies of Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Meyers is one of twelve Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2005 he received an Award in Literature to honor exceptional achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Berkeley, California.

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ISBN 13	9780719549106
ISBN 10	0719549108
Title	Joseph Conrad
Author	Jeffrey Meyers
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Year published	1991-07-18
Number of pages	320
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