Joseph Conrad : a citizen of a global world - recenzja

Abstract

On the dust jacket one can see a silhouette of a well-built man against the stormy sea (definitely too tall to be Conrad himself), standing on a downward spiral (symbolizing the downfall of civilization?) and next to it the blurb “enlightening, compassionate, superb”, a recommendation by John le Carré—surely, as we shall see, the author of The Tailor of Panama would know what to recommend… but first things first. Nowadays we observe a boom in popularizing biographies that try to bring us closer to the classic writers (e.g. S. Greenblatt’s Will in the World, or A. Sismon’s John le Carré: The Biography)[...]