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Joseph Conrad

Also known as Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

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Joseph Conrad was a writer, novelist, essayist, and screenwriter who worked within the modernist literature movement. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, he held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the Second Polish Republic. He died in 1924 in Bishopsbourne, Kent.

His notable works include The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Amy Foster. Other titles associated with him are The rescue, London's river, Typhoon, and Youth. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Harry Ransom Center. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 3 December 1857
Died: 3 August 1924
Works: 5571

Top works

Guía literaria de Londres
The rescue
London's river
Typhoon
Youth

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Film & TV

Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) was a Polish-born English novelist. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by…

Known for

Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau — Self (archive footage)2014
Omnibus — Self1967
The Golden Twenties — Self (archive footage)1950

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Teodor
Family name: Korzeniowski
Gender: male
Citizenship: Ukraine
Place of birth: Berdychiv
Place of death: Kent
Father: Apollo Korzeniowski
Languages spoken: Polish
Religion: atheism
Notable work: Under Western Eyes
Field of work: fiction
Genre: novella
Movement: modernist literature
Image: Joseph Conrad-remastered to black and white.png
Significant event: Nazi book burnings

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Commons category: Joseph Conrad
date of birth: 1857-01-01
date of death: 1924-01-01
topic's main category: Category:Joseph Conrad
Commons Creator page: Joseph Conrad
described by source: New International Encyclopedia
Commons gallery: Joseph Conrad
birth name: Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
archives at: Harry Ransom Center
cause of death: myocardial infarction
manner of death: natural causes
ethnic group: Poles
start of work period: 1895-00-00
has works in the collection: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
writing language: English language
influenced by: Victor Hugo
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
end of work period: 1926-00-00
P12674: Gouda

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Works in European collections

18 objects attributed to Joseph Conrad, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Két kisregény

Classical English novels

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Encyclopedic overview

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties (always with a strong foreign accent) – he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depicted crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic films have been adapted from and inspired by his works.

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Joseph Conrad