" Aborder la lecture de La Rescousse, c'est connaître une expérience exceptionnelle, peut-être unique : celle d'entrer dans un livre qui appartient à la fois au début et à la fin de la carrière d'un grand écrivain. [...] Son originalité est d'être un roman qui traite, et traite de façon puissante et riche, d'un thème fascinant et éminemment conradien : l'illusion de la grandeur. " Sylvère Monod

La Rescousse

Poète de l'aventure exotique, joseph Conrad est aussi un écrivain visionnaire, et c'est là ce qui donne leur unité à ces six nouvelles tour à tour européennes, américaines et australiennes.
L'amoncellement des têtes de prisonniers assoiffés derrière leurs barreaux, l'élégante Londonienne arrachant l'ourlet de sa robe à l'indic qui veut le baiser avant de mourir, l'ancre qui se dresse soudain sur le pont du bateau pour jeter une jeune fille à la mer, le terroriste amphibie, les deux officiers napoléoniens s'affrontant tour à tour à pied, à cheval, à l'épée, au sabre et au pistolet, et le vieux comte joignant ses mains sur sa poitrine pour ne pas abandonner son alliance et sa chevalière au brigand armé qui les lui réclame - autant d'images inoubliables.

Sextuor

Commandant le Nan-shan, le capitaine Mac Whirr est un homme taciturne. Voguer sur la mer de Chine pendant la saison des typhons ne l'inquiète pas vraiment. Quand, pendant la traversée, il voit l'aiguille du baromètre chuter comme il ne l'a jamais vue auparavant, sa première réflexion est qu'un sale temps se prépare. La mer grossit et déjà le navire embarque de l'eau. Sur le pont inférieur, deux cents coolies chinois voyagent dans des conditions effroyables. Quand son second lui suggère de changer de cap pour éviter le gros temps, il refuse, un détour impliquant des frais supplémentaires pour l'armateur. Mac Whirr est-il complètement inconscient?...
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Typhon

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling to Mecca for the hajj. When the ship starts rapidly taking on water and disaster seems imminent, Jim joins his captain and other crew members in abandoning the ship and its passengers. A few days later, they are picked up by a British ship. However, the Patna and its passengers are later also saved, and the reprehensible actions of the crew are exposed. The other participants evade the judicial court of inquiry, leaving Jim to the court alone. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. The novel is counted as one of 100 best books of the 20th century.Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English literature.Contents: Lord JimMemoirs & Letters:A Personal Record; or Some ReminiscencesThe Mirror of the SeaNotes on Life & LettersBiography & Critical Essays:Joseph Conrad (A Biography) by Hugh WalpoleJoseph Conrad by John Albert MacyA Conrad Miscellany by John Albert MacyJoseph Conrad by Virginia Woolf

Lord Jim

In a rough-and-ready shop in Soho in Victorian London, Mr. Verloc lives a humble existence sustaining himself, his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother, Stevie. But all is not as it seems with Mr. Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of a foreign government. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Secret Agent

Recently made captain, a young ship's officer comes quickly to maturity when faced with a crisis that tests his ability to lead his crew. Based in part upon author Joseph Conrad's experience in the British merchant marine, The Shadow-Line is considered to be one of his masterpieces, revealing Conrad's skill at conveying complex themes and characters within a deceptively simple story. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Shadow-Line

Joseph Conrad, Gaspar Ruiz, A Set of Six Traduction de Philippe Neel Les six nouvelles qui composent ce recueil furent écrites durant les années des plus grands chefs-d'oeuvre de Conrad - notamment Lord Jim et Nostromo. Qu'il décrive un épisode étrange de l'épopée napoléonienne (Le Duel) ou de la guerre d'indépendance au Chili (Gaspar Ruiz), qu'il s'attache au destin tragique d'un indicateur infiltré dans un groupuscule anarchiste (L'Indicateur) ou à la vie d'un bagnard en fuite dans un comptoir colonial isolé (Un anarchiste), Conrad met en scène des personnages typiques de son univers, aux prises avec une fatalité contraire, finalement victimes de leur propre force, de leur vaillance et peut-être de leur aveuglement. Ce volume comprend : Gaspar Ruiz - L'Indicateur - La Brute - Un anarchiste - Le Duel - Il Conte.

Gaspar Ruiz - A set of six

Annotations de Raymond Las Vergnas. Nouvelle édition

La folie almayer

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one of the darkest places on earth." Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.

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