Theroux's novel "Saint Jack" was inspired by Conrad's "Lord Jim" and features a corrupt version of Conrad's protagonist.
Conrad was a major influence on Lowry's work.
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Caputo's novel has a great deal in common with Conrad's great sea adventures in which, frequently, a young man comes of age in the course of his apprenticeship aboard a ship.
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"[France is] the writer on whom the most distinguished amongst his literary countrymen have conferred the rank of Prince of Prose. Never has a dignity been better borne. M. Anatole France is a good prince. He knows nothing of tyranny but much of compassion. The detachment of his mind from common errors and current superstitions befits the exalted rank he holds in the commonwealth of literature."
"What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality?"
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzenioski, son of Polish nationalists who died in exile for their political activities, was raised by relatives in various parts of Eastern Europe. He went to sea at 16, and spent 20 years at sea, working first on French merchant ships in the West Indies, then on English ships, where he learned the language and traveled to Latin America and Africa. He drew on these experiences for much of his fiction; in 1890 he was the commander of a ship that traveled up the Congo River, more...
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12/03/1857 Poland, Central Europe,
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Too heavy and way too dark esp. as a set book for grade 12, but I aint reading it again!