CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK
BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'Enlightening, compassionate, superb' John le
Carre A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our
global world, from one of the best historians writing today.
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and
nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and
communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of
Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this
brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern
literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of
globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland
to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the
Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured
it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story
delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and
reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern
world. Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in
1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left
the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next
twenty years travelled the world's oceans before settling
permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive
'new imperialism' that planted a flag in almost every populated
part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places 'beyond
the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,' and the hypocrisy
of the west's most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of
history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad's
routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret
Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending,
intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks
on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad's world
- and through it to our own.
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