Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist renowned for his psychologically complex, morally ambiguous sea tales and modernist works such as "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim."

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instanceOf essayist
modernist writer
novelist
person
short story writer
burialPlace Canterbury
Canterbury Cemetery
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship Poland
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1857-12-03
dateOfDeath 1924-08-03
educatedAt self-taught
ethnicGroup Poles
familyName Korzeniowski
fullName Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski NERFINISHED
genre modernist literature
political fiction
psychological fiction
sea story
givenName Józef
Konrad
Teodor
influenced Ernest Hemingway
George Orwell
Graham Greene
T. S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf
William Faulkner
influencedBy Fyodor Dostoevsky
Henry James
Ivan Turgenev
languageOfExpression English
Polish
militaryBranch British merchant navy
surface form: British merchant marine

French merchant marine
movement Modernism
notableWork Chance
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Nostromo
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’
The Secret Agent
Typhoon
Under Western Eyes
Victory
Youth
occupation essayist
novelist
seaman
short story writer
placeOfBirth Berdichev
surface form: Berdychiv

Russian Empire
present-day Ukraine
placeOfDeath Bishopsbourne
England
Kent
primaryTheme alienation
imperialism
moral ambiguity
psychological complexity
the sea
pseudonym Joseph Conrad
residence Kent
London, England
surface form: London
spouse Jessie George
writingStyleCharacteristic complex narrative structure
frame narratives
unreliable narrators

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Herman Melville influenced Joseph Conrad
F. Scott Fitzgerald influencedBy Joseph Conrad
Joseph Anton: A Memoir namedAfter Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad pseudonym Joseph Conrad