The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad In A Global World
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE `Enlightening,
compassionate, superb' John le Carre A visionary life and times of
Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best
historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions
between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of
a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped
the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth
century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great
voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a
prophet of globalization as we recognize it today.As an immigrant
from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo
to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and
captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life
story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and
reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern
world. Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in
1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire.At sixteen he left
the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next
twenty years travelled the world's oceans before settling
permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive
`new imperialism' that planted a flag in almost every populated
part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places `beyond
the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,' and the hypocrisy
of the west's most cherished ideals.In a compelling blend of
history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad's
routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret
Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending,
intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks
on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad's world
- and through it to our own.
Výber kníh autorov
William Collins ,
Maya Jasanoff
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William Collins,
Maya Jasanoff
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Slovart
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Slovart
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