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“An impenitent & unashamed dandy” – from Joseph Conrad’s Letters to R.B. Cunninghame Graham, ed. C.T. Watts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), quoting George Bernard Shaw
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Y'all I speak French very well, even if I have a Joseph Conrad level accent. But I had a difficult moment tonight over the word découvrir. Apparently that means you can ask questions. To me, it just meant find out, when used as a command in French. Cue more you know star,I guess. But this actually caused some friction tonight.
#French #English #expat #language #linguistics #France #josephconrad #immigrant #migrant #communication
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
-- Joseph Conrad
There are three #modernist #writers whose #ShortStories remind me of each others', that I often wonder whether they read one another. No matter how unlikely it might be, given their different times and milieux. Here's the list, in rough chronological order:
* #SamuelClemens/ #MarkTwain.
* #BrianONolan/ #FlannOBrien/ #MilesNaGopaleen.
* #HermanCharlesBosman.
Seems most likely that Twain could have been read by the other two.
#JosephConrad fits in here somewhere too, I suspect.
There must be research into this kind of link. Modernist short stories are fundamentally important artefacts of the 20th Century, so this sort of thing must be known.
I sell these because they're double in my collection. (not easy to find)
#chantalakerman #dvd #cinema #lacaptive #lafoliealmayer #docu #proust #josephconrad
July #reading looks embarassingly like operation head-in-sand.
#ThomasHardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872
#Hannah Regel, The Last Sane Woman, 2024
#JosephConrad The Secret Agent, 1907
#IvyCompton-Burnett, A Family and a Fortune, 1939 and The Present and the Past, 1953
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A powerful quote from a great novel.
Conrad has a unique way, hasn't he, of creating rich parallels and analogies between spheres of existence, and then clouding all directionality. We may think of the sea voyage as an allegory of our experience of life, but it is the Captain who is explained to us by images of the unseeing lives of regular people. Conrad invokes abstract notions of the futility of those lives to help us understand the Captain and his actions.
#Cine #Cinema #Movies #Films #Películas #Cinemastodon #MastoFilms #ObrasMaestrasDelCine #ApocalypseNow #FordCoppola #JosephConrad #ElCorazónDeLasTinieblas
Si Apocalypse Now también es tu película favorita, tal vez te guste este hilo con imágenes inéditas de la bajada a los infiernos que supuso su rodaje.
He editado los vídeos, por partes relacionadas, del documental de Eleanor Coppola Corazones en tinieblas: Apocalipsis de un director (1991), rodado en 16 mm.