Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to story telling -- in prose and in poetry, in art and in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books
Today is the story of Dec. 3rd
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It is the 337th day of the year, leaving 28 days remaining in 2022.
He is widely considered one of the great English writers, although he didn't speak the language until he was in his early 20s.
Still, he told his stories with the stylings of great prose, with the richness of the language. He wrote about the individual against nature, of humans' inherent evil, and the inner battles between good against evil. He was considered an impressionist, a modernist, and a realist.
The book that best summed up his world and his writings was Heart of Darkness, a critique of European exploitation of Africa. He tells the story of a sailor, Charles Marlow, and his search for an ivory trader, Kurtz, who straddles the world of the "civilized" and the "uncivilized." It is known to Americans for its adaptation into the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, set during the U.S.-Vietnam War.
Conrad's parents were Polish, living in the Russian Empire, and were arrested and sent into exile in Northern Russia when Conrad was 4 years old. By the time he was 12, both his parents were dead and Conrad was sent to live with family in Poland. At 16, he went to work as a merchant marine in France, and later in Britain.
He gained much material at sea for his writing career, and in 1895, his first novel, Almayer's Folly, was published. He wrote Lord Jim, about a sailor coming to terms with abandoning his ship, in 1900. His final novel, The Rover, was published in 1923.
Conrad died in Kent, England, in 1924.
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