Joseph Conrad

A Personal Remembrance

By:

Ford Madox Ford

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

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Determined not to write a biography about his friend Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) in the usual dry style, Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) instead produced a novel. As a result, some biographical facts are given less emphasis than others, in particular the acrimony which later blighted relations between the two men. But the work is distinguished by its liveliness and by a wealth of vivid detail. Ford describes Conrad's remarkably long-eared horse, his haphazard use of adverbs and their fraught collaboration over their second joint novel, Romance, during which Ford's carefully unexciting style provoked the adventure-loving Conrad to depression. Ford's impressionistic portrayal of Conrad as an elegant, likeable swindler and 'beautiful genius' strikes a far richer chord than a purely historical account. First published in 1924, just after Conrad's death, this work remains a striking example of creative non-fiction, instructive for scholars and students of English literature.

Release date NZ

June 27th, 2013

Author

Ford Madox Ford

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

2 Plates, black and white

Pages

264

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies

Dimensions

140x216x15

ISBN-13

9781108060943

Product ID

20932854

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