Who were Conrad's parents?

What was their nationality?

Apollo Korzeniowski and Ewa Bobrowska

Polish

When was Joseph Conrad born?

Where did the name "Konrad" come from?

1857

Adam Mickiewicz’s patriotic dramatic poem, ‘‘Dziady’’

What disease did Ewa contract?

Where did they move for her health?

While there, what failure did they learn of?

tuberculosis

Chernikhov

Polish Insurrection of 1863

Great Britain

France

Italy

Belgium

Spain

Germany

Portugal

Who was:

Teofila Bobrowski

Tadeusz Bobrowski

Stephen Buszczynski

Teofila: Conrad's grandma, legal guardian from 1870-3

Tadeusz: Conrad's uncle, financial + emotional support

Stephen: Apollo's close friend, cared for Conrad while he was in boarding school

In 1874, Conrad left high school and Austrian Poland for a career at sea in __________ 

His biographer ________ argues that Marseilles was Conrad’s only option.

Marseilles, France.

 Zdzislaw Najder

1. Conrad could not return to Polish Ukraine, as he would have been arrested.

2. He could not stay in Austria because no citizenship = no military service

3. France  already served as a traditional refuge for thousands of Poles.

the repitition of a word/phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

("Of life and liberty / Of truth and justice")

the omission of conjunctions

("He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect")

a reversal in the order of words in otherwise parallel phrases

("He went to the town ; to the town went she"

the -ing form of a verb functioning as a noun

("Running is fun.")

an idiom whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its elements

("to kick the bucket")

an understatement, esp. when the affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

("not bad at all")

figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object/concept for that of another related object/concept

("the bottle" for "strong drink")

personification

("the angry sea")

the use of a number of conjunctions in close succession

("He ran and jumped and climbed and flew.")

figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, the special is used for the general, or vice versa

("ten sails" for "ten ships")

a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of the other

(when a sound produces the visualization of a color)

Delestang

Mont Blanc ; Saint Antoine

What ship did Conrad smuggle guns on?

Why was he smuggling them?

The Tremolino

To aid the Carlist Revoltion in Spain

Joseph Barron, a black crewman, inspired the character James Wait in this book

Conrad suffered from _________, or exhaustion

of the central nervous system.

Conrad's experiences aboard this ship in the Malay archipelago served as the basis for his Malay novels

William Charles Olmeijer

This ship was Conrad's first and only command

Eugenie Renouf

Conrad received a three-year post on the

Congo since the prior captain, ___________,

was murdered

Conrad's "aunt", ___________, recommended him to _________ to command the Roi des Belges

Marguerite Poradowski

Albert Thys

The last maneuverable city by river in the Congo

Unfriendly manager for the Kinshasa branch of Société Belge

Conrad’s first masterpiece

Conrad’s only tale to be set in London; revolves around a scheme to blow up the Greenwich Royal Observatory; later adapted into Sabotage by Hitchcock

Conrad's only significant WWI work and the masterpiece of the end of his life 

Replaced Marguerite as a source of reassurance

Conrad sent Outcast to this person and got Spoils of Poynton and a lunch invitation back

Set in the Malay; introduces the framing narrative format that Conrad later used in Heart of Darkness 

Conrad’s first story to be printed in Blackwood's Magazine 

Prequel to Lord Jim ; features Marlow

Conrad’s first important political essay, centering on the Russo-Japanese war

Rudyard Kipling

Robert Louis Stevenson

A recognized poet critic who wrote an essay, "Decivilized"

Alice Meynell

Almayer's Folly

An Outcast of the Islands

The Rescue

Victory

French journalist who wrote weekly pamphlets spreading information he gained from inspecting cargoes of ships on the Congo

Who were these characters based on?

Great Man Himself

Director of Companies

Accountant

Lawyer

Great Man = Albert Thys

DoC = G. F. W. Hope

Accountant = Keen

Lawyer = Mears

Goethe's Faust

Italian commedia dell'arte

Bible

Greek Fates

Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth

1. Life is mysterious

2. Artists can preserve life’s mysteries through symbols

Claimed Conrad's style opposed the "vigorous, direct, effective" style of Rudyard Kipling

Said Conrad was "too misty"

John Masefield

E. M. Forster

Which modern critics have issues with Conrad's:

1. sexism

2. racism

1. Johanna Smith

2. Chinua Achebe

Conrad stated that the only review that affected him painfully was this person's review of Chance

.

Conrad wrote a play, _________ , based on "Tomorrow," but it failed

Peter Brooks asserts that the novella is a detective story ‘‘____ _______"

The primary comic relief comes from the cannibals and

the usage of ‘‘______’’ English

 Promoter and translator of Conrad’s works