Conrad was grown up by reading works of romantic-heroic tradition of Polish literature. Conrad’s father was a Polish revolutionary fighting for the independence of Poland against Tsarist Russia. Conrad was originally Polish, but he later migrated to England and became a citizen of the powerful British Empire in which the “sun was never setting down” at those years. It is hard to believe that a gifted writer like Joseph Conrad was not even able to speak English until the beginning of his twenties. This article aims to analyze Conrad’s life story and his most famous work Heart of Darkness. Conrad is considered an early modernist, though his works still contain elements of 19th century realism. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.
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