Y'all I speak French very well, even if I have a Joseph Conrad level accent. But I had a difficult moment tonight over the word découvrir. Apparently that means you can ask questions. To me, it just meant find out, when used as a command in French. Cue more you know star,I guess. But this actually caused some friction tonight.
#French #English #expat #language #linguistics #France #josephconrad #immigrant #migrant #communication
#JosephConrad
DAY 11 - Book Challenge : 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just #BookCovers. #20books #20books20days #BookCover #LordJim #BritishWriter #BritishLiterature #LiteraryImpressionism #NauticalLiterature #AdventureLiterature #JosephConrad #TheBurialAtSea_Painting_1890 #FrankWilliamBrangwyn
#CoverIllustration #Cover_Art #Book #Books #Art #Mystery #Literature #Imperialism #Colonialism
#PaperbackCovers #Paperbacks #PaperbackBooks #PenguinBooks
📰 Rui Lopes publicou um ensaio no @Publico sobre a literatura de ficção de espionagem, em particular sobre "O Agente Secreto" (1907), de Joseph Conrad, e o impulso que este livro deu ao género literário na viragem para o século XX.
#Histodons #HistoryAndLiterature #HistóriaELiteratura #Espionagem #SpyStories #JosephConrad #HistoryInThePublicSphere #HistóriaNaEsferaPública #Vidocq #Literatura
« A heavy atmosphere of oppressive quietude pervaded the ship. In the afternoon men went about washing clothes and hanging them out to dry in the unprosperous breeze with the meditative languor of disenchanted philosophers. »
#JosephConrad "The Nigger of the Narcissus", 1897, incipit of Chapter 5.
Du Conrad « pur jus » : le monde des marins, les phrases à rallonge, la surcharge d’adjectifs, le balancement « latin » (vs anglo-saxon) de la phrase, le vocabulaire chargé d’influences indo-européennes, et le questionnement implicite du philosophe sur le monde et ce qui, comme le vent pour la marine à voile, le pousse sans qu’il puisse en prendre le contrôle.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad
🚨 new book alert! 🚨 4 new books on #Modernism
Facing the uncertainty of Modernism, the treatment of #spectrality & #ghosts in works by #JosephConrad, #EMForster, #MaryButts, & #ElizabethBowen is analysed by Stephen Ross: "There is hope in these ghosts, not resignation"
Found these (apocryphal?) stratements by #JosephConrad in an unsigned introduction to "The Nigger of the Narcissus" :
Capitalism : piracy with good PR.
Imperialism : a grandiose front for old-school rape and pillage.
SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Munich Strategy
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/17/scott-ritter-trumps-munich-strategy/
At the security conference in Germany we just saw Trump make a classic adaptation of John Boyd’s OODA-loop to destroy his NATO and EU enemies. “The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #BidenAdministration #Column #Commentary #EuropeanUnion #Germany #Military #Nato #Russia #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.JusticeDept. #Ukraine #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #DennisHopper #EwaldHeinrichVonKleistSchmenzin #J.d.Vance #JohnBoyd #JosephConrad #MartinSheen #MunichSecurityConference2025 #OodaLoop #PeteHegseth #ScottRitter #TrumpRevolution
Capsule Review Archive – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
https://write.as/robinmarx/capsule-review-archive-heart-of-darkness-by-joseph-conrad
There are three #modernist #writers whose #ShortStories remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:
* #SamuelClemens/ #MarkTwain.
* #BrianONolan/ #FlannOBrien/ #MilesNaGopaleen.
* #HermanCharlesBosman.
Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.
#JosephConrad fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.
There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.
Based On #Colonialism #Racism & #Genocide in Congo and beyond is chronicled by Sven Lindqvist (1996)
Book Title is a quote by Kurtz from earlier “fiction” classic Heart of Darkness by J.C. (1899)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterminate_All_the_Brutes_(book)
I sell these because they're double in my collection. (not easy to find)
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#chantalakerman #dvd #cinema #lacaptive #lafoliealmayer #docu #proust #josephconrad
The Rover 1967 movie, from #josephconrad 's book
# O horror ocidental
"Gostaria, diante de vocês, esta noite, de tentar me justificar. Não sei até que ponto o que vou ser levado a dizer irá coincidir com as preocupações de vocês ou se inscrever na problemática geral que é a sua. Também não sei se conseguirei me explicar melhor sobre o que resta da ordem, para mim, de uma fascinação. Este gênero de exercício, como se sabe, é perigoso. Minha fala será, portanto, um pouco experimental. Peço a vocês, antecipadamente, que me desculpem.
Quando digo: No coração das trevas é um dos maiores textos da literatura ocidental, penso, simultânea e indissociavelmente, em duas coisas: em sua potência mítica e naquilo que o constitui como acontecimento do pensamento. É impossível, legitimamente, fazer a separação: o mito do Ocidente, que essa história recapitula (mas para significar que o Ocidente é um mito), é literalmente o pensamento do Ocidente: aquilo que o Ocidente "conta" que ele precisa pensar sobre si mesmo: que ele é o horror - vocês sabem, vocês leram essas páginas..."
Êta que lá vem um baita texto de Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe sobre #josephconrad https://www.scielo.br/j/alea/a/g9mD9wsf5ZR45CyjpNSwjPS/
Literarischer #3Dezember
„Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
#JosephConrad #Chance Geburt 1857
« The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. »
― Joseph Conrad
J'aime bien lire des nouvelles. Si les anglophones (#NadineGordimer, #LuciaBerlin, #GracePaley, #RaymondCarver, #JosephConrad évidemment...) sont omniprésents dans ma bibliothèque, j'y ai récemment ajouté la Russe Dina Rubina ("Zoom avant", Phébus, 2006, trad Yves Gauthier) dont le récit d'un tournage de film improbable à Tachkent est un véritable bijou d'auto-dérision, d'humour noir et de désillusion. La couverture du livre (Poumeyrol, 1978) renvoie à la nouvelle sur Venise.
#VendrediLecture
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." — Joseph Conrad — — — #JosephConrad #quote #quotes #prescient #clear #rulers #leaders #obscurity #uncertainty #inexact #boldness
Dia 3 de agosto fez 100 anos da morte de Joseph Conrad, conforme @albertochimal o escreveu em La Jornada :
A un siglo de su muerte, Joseph Conrad aún nos cuenta cosas que preferiríamos no saber
Se cumple el #centenario de la muerte de #JosephConrad, el autor de "El corazón de las tinieblas", migrante y crítico de un imperio. Me tocó decir algo sobre su obra.
#literatura #libros #libroverso #escritores #novelistas #novela
https://www.jornada.com.mx/2024/08/03/cultura/a02n1cul
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