Joseph Conrad

It is possible that he did read the book, but it is more likely that he would have read it at Columbia in the modern fiction class taught by Edward Said, who had himself written a book titled Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

One virtuoso excursion tracks the history of a Chassepot rifle, which is brought to Colombia in 1866, changes hands countless times in dozens of battles, is used to kill Prussians and Frenchmen, liberals and conservatives alike, and is one of the many weapons included in a clandestine arms sale overseen by a young Polish steward named Józef Korzeniowski, later known as Joseph Conrad.

A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011

One virtuoso excursion tracks the history of a Chassepot rifle, which is brought to Colombia in 1866, changes hands countless times in dozens of battles, is used to kill Prussians and Frenchmen, liberals and conservatives alike, and is one of the many weapons included in a clandestine arms sale overseen by a young Polish steward named Józef Korzeniowski, later known as Joseph Conrad.

A Tale of Two Joes, One of Them Conrad Sam Sacks 2011

It is possible that he did read the book, but it is more likely that he would have read it at Columbia in the modern fiction class taught by Edward Said, who had himself written a book titled Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography.

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

We see a looming, derelict ship in a port; a thuggish man who smokes and then smiles; a bearded ship's captain who recalls the Joseph Conrad era, and so on-moments that, not unexpectedly, have a pervasive scariness.

The New York Review of Books 2010

As Achebe has made clear in interviews over the years, he very much wanted, as the son of a Christian from the village of Ogidi, to oppose in his work the condescension toward Africans and their culture that he found in tales such as Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness.”

Africa Reading Challenge 2008

Joseph Conrad was a strong Russophobe, for the good reason that his parents, working for Poland's freedom from Russian rule, died in Siberia, leaving him orphaned by politics at age 11.

To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels Joseph Epstein 2011

In the 1916 novella The Shadow-Line, from which Hugo Blick's sophisticated if mannered seven-part policier takes its name, Joseph Conrad wrote: "And the time, too, goes on – till one perceives ahead a shadow-line warning one that the region of early youth, too, must be left behind."

TV review: The Shadow Line and Psychoville 2011

F.R. Leavis included James among the four major novelists (with Jane Austen, George Eliot and Joseph Conrad) in his "The Great Tradition" (1948).

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

In his short story "An Outpost of Progress," Joseph Conrad wrote that "few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."

Two Paths, Little Glory For This Polish Director Anthony Paletta 2011