Joseph Conrad Quotes


One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.


Citations

Conrad, Joseph. Notes on Life and Letters. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1921.

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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
  • Born: December 3, 1857
  • Died: August 3, 1924
  • Nationality: Polish, British
  • Profession: Novelist

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe.