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Chargement... The Mirror of the Sea and A Personal Recordpar Joseph Conrad
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was arduous going. I admire the Conrad novels I have read. I admire his genius for expression in the English language. His early reminiscences, while romantic and torn about by great events in Central Europe, reveal a man who has had to go with what life served him. Well for us that he was such a keen observer of human frailties, and that he served in commerce and at sea. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Joseph Conrad is a largely enigmatic presence in his novels, but in A Personal Record he decided to introduce his readers to "the figure behind the veil". Almost equally revealing is The Mirror of the Sea, written in "tribute to the sea, its ships, and its men, to whom I remain indebted for so much which has gone to make me what I am". Both are full of Conrad's anecdotes and adventures about smuggling arms to Don Carlos, a claimant to the Spanish throne, and characters like the great-uncle who once had to eat a Lithuanian dog during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. They also let us see inside the young man who broke with his Polish background and was deeply inspired by the resilience and devotion to duty of his fellow British sailors. Every page is filled with a powerful moral intelligence and sense of history. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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3.5 stars. Recommended. ( )