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Joseph Conrad, właściwie Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski herbu Nałęcz – angielski pisarz i publicysta polskiego pochodzenia.

Józef Korzeniowski był synem pisarza Apollona Korzeniowskiego. Nie ukończywszy gimnazjum, wyjechał w 1874 do Francji i zaciągnął się na statek jako prosty marynarz. W 1894 osiadł w Anglii i poświęcił się pracy pisarskiej; zaledwie rok później wydał pierwszą powieść Szaleństwo Almayera. Publikując na obczyźnie używał pseudonimu „Joseph Conrad”, który utworzył z imion: Józef i Konrad. Wybitna twórczość Korzeniowskiego pozostaje zjawiskiem odosobnionym w literaturze światowej, łącząc w sobie nurt romantyzmu z pozytywizmem, symbolizmu z impresjonizmem. Michał Choromański w tytule jednej z powieści nazwał Josepha Conrada „Słowackim wysp tropikalnych”. Większość przekładów na język polski, autoryzowanych przez Korzeniowskiego, jest dziełem kuzynki pisarza Anieli Zagórskiej. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Grudzień 1857 – 3. Sierpień 1924
Joseph Conrad Fotografia
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Joseph Conrad słynne cytaty

„Żyjemy tak jak śnimy – samotnie.”

We live, as we dream – alone. (ang.)
Jądro ciemności

Joseph Conrad Cytaty o ludziach

Joseph Conrad Cytaty o życiu

Joseph Conrad cytaty

„Człowiek jest zadziwiający, ale arcydziełem nie jest.”

Lord Jim
Źródło: Lord Jim, t. II, r. XX, Warszawa 1904, s. 38, tłum. Emilia Węsławska.

„Tylko praca daje okazję odkryć nam nas samych.”

Źródło: O życiu i literaturze

„Być kobietą to strasznie trudne zajęcie, bo polega głównie na zadawaniu się z mężczyznami.”

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. (ang.)

„Podążać za swem marzeniem, podążać wiecznie – zawsze, usque ad finem…”

To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream – and so – always – usque ad finem… (ang.)
Lord Jim
Źródło: Lord Jim, t. II, r. XXXV, Warszawa 1904, s. 137, tłum. Emilia Węsławska.

„Morze podobne jest sercu kobiety.”

Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.

„Miłość jest to barwa na aksamitnym kwiecie. Patrz i używaj z daleka. Gdy go ściśniesz w palcach, zostanie plama i cały wdzięk przepadnie.”

Źródło: Zofia Reutt-Witkowska, Studja nad utworami dramatycznemi Korzeniowskiego, tom 3, Nakł. Gebethnera i Wolffa, s. 89.

„Prawdziwym życiem człowieka jest to, że żyje on w myślach innych ludzi.”

Źródło: Henryk Gaertner, Rodzinne rodowody

Joseph Conrad: Cytaty po angielsku

“Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.”

Letter (September 1915), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 5, p. 509 ISBN 0521323894

“Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach, clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of cement works in Grays and Greenhithe. Smoking quietly at the top against the great blaze of a magnificent sunset, they give an industrial character to the scene, speak of work, manufactures, and trade, as palm-groves on the coral strands of distant islands speak of the luxuriant grace, beauty and vigour of tropical nature. The houses of Gravesend crowd upon the shore with an effect of confusion as if they had tumbled down haphazard from the top of the hill at the back. The flatness of the Kentish shore ends there. A fleet of steam-tugs lies at anchor in front of the various piers. A conspicuous church spire, the first seen distinctly coming from the sea, has a thoughtful grace, the serenity of a fine form above the chaotic disorder of men’s houses. But on the other side, on the flat Essex side, a shapeless and desolate red edifice, a vast pile of bricks with many windows and a slate roof more inaccessible than an Alpine slope, towers over the bend in monstrous ugliness, the tallest, heaviest building for miles around, a thing like an hotel, like a mansion of flats (all to let), exiled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier defined with stone blocks and wooden piles, a white mast, slender like a stalk of straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock-gates. Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs. This is the entrance to Tilbury Dock, the most recent of all London docks, the nearest to the sea.”

Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Hope Point to Tilbury / Gravesend
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16

“Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.”

Joseph Conrad książka The Secret Agent

Źródło: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 2

“Coming in from the eastward, the bright colouring of the [Nore] lightship marking the part of the river committed to the charge of an Admiral (the Commander-in-Chief at the Nore) accentuates the dreariness and the great breadth of the Thames Estuary. But soon the course of the ship opens the entrance of the Medway, with its men-of-war moored in line, and the long wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settlement upon a wild and unexplored shore. The famous Thames barges sit in brown clusters upon the water with an effect of birds floating upon a pond… [The inward-bound ships] all converge upon the Nore, the warm speck of red upon the tones of drab and gray, with the distant shores running together towards the west, low and flat, like the sides of an enormous canal. The sea-reach of the Thames is straight, and, once Sheerness is left behind, its banks seem very uninhabited, except for the cluster of houses which is Southend, or here and there a lonely wooden jetty where petroleum ships discharge their dangerous cargoes, and the oil-storage tanks, low and round with slightly-domed roofs, peep over the edge of the fore-shore, as it were a village of Central African huts imitated in iron. Bordered by the black and shining mud-flats, the level marsh extends for miles. Away in the far background the land rises, closing the view with a continuous wooded slope, forming in the distance an interminable rampart overgrown with bushes.”

Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

The Nore to Hope Point
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16

“Egoism, which is the moving force of the world, and altruism, which is its morality, these two contradictory instincts, of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.”

Letter to the editor of The New York Times Saturday Book Review (August 1901), as quoted in Joseph Conrad: A Life (2007) by Zdzisław Najder, translated by Halina Najder, p. 315

“Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.”

Joseph Conrad książka Victory

Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part II, Ch. 3

“A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.”

Joseph Conrad książka Under Western Eyes

Pt. I, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.”

Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)

“To the destruction of what is.”

Joseph Conrad książka The Secret Agent

Toast by the Professor, Ch. 13
The Secret Agent (1907)

“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”

Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Źródło: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 27

“The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.”

Joseph Conrad książka Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)

“The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.”

Joseph Conrad książka Victory

Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=jhVObcSHoQgC&q=%22The+world+of+finance+is+a+mysterious+world+in+which+incredible+as+the+fact+may+appear+evaporation+precedes+liquidation%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage

“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”

Joseph Conrad książka Under Western Eyes

Pt. I, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)

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