Following stays in Lwów and a number of smaller towns, they relocated to Kraków, also in Austrian Poland, on February 20, 1869. This region had enjoyed significant internal freedom and a degree of self-government for the previous two years. Young Conrad was sent for a year-long retreat to Kyiv and his mother’s family estate at Novofastiv in the fall of 1866 due to health concernsĪpollo sent his kid to the region of Poland that was governed by Austria in December 1867. Most of all, though, he read Polish Romantic poetry. Shakespeare brought him into the orbit of English literature. Conrad’s father tried his best to teach him by himself. joseph Conrad was his family’s only child, He never knew his mother. It was not until 1867 that Conrad and his father were allowed to return to Poland. Conrad’s mother Ewa Bobrowska died three years later in 1865 she was born in a noble family with a kind heart but fragile health. In 1862 the family was forced to move to Russia because of his father’s political activities. His father Apollo Korzeniowski was a poet, translator, political activist and playwriter. Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire the region had once been part of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland on 3 December 1857.
He’s mainly known for his novel “Heart of Darkness (1902),” and “Lord Jim (1900),” Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) which the godfather of modern literature Vladimir Nabokov said was one of the four great novels. He adopted the pen name Joseph Conrad in April 1895 with the publication of his novel Almayer’s Folly. Joseph Conrad’s original name was Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski. Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born British author and short-story writer who wrote in English but also translated his own works. Joseph Conrad’s Writing Career and Personal Life.
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