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... should write in. The francophilia of the central characters, Beckett’s own example in French, and the shining work of Joseph Conrad in English, suggest that a native language, or staying or returning “home”, are not the only answers to all of a particular ...
... her case, confused with her passion for literature and the Icelandic fishermen extolled by Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti and Joseph Conrad. But, just as passions fade, so love which balances on a shared passion is precarious. Ruefully, Yves sees that the stories ...
... sea‘captain noted: “He was in the habit of alluding to his Scotch connections, but every great man has done that.” But Joseph Conrad encountered his Scots off the Malay peninsula. If their own sense of nationality was reoriented, pushed out to new ...
... attached from a studio - or more personal undertakings for development from scratch. In the latter category he is adapting a Joséph Conrad novel, Freva of the Seven Isles, a romantic triangle set in the South Pacific. Asa gun for hire he will be directing Ground ...
... authors who wrote in this vigorous style were encouraged, and among those first discovered and published by William were Joseph Conrad, John Buchan and the Australian Henry Lawson; those rejected included George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Conan Doyle. After ...
... the real ship’s officers (Murdoch is back left) line up on the bridge before the fatal voyage. Photograph: Popperfoto Joseph Conrad. The brightest boy in his year at Dalbeattie High School, he left aged 14 and set straight to sea, eventually joining the ...
... Bernard Shaw got to know her at the Fabian Society and proposed marriage, and at various times W B Yeats, H G Wells, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy, D H Lawrence, Arnold Bennett and H E Bates passed through the Garnett household. It is, however, for ...
... Female market, male-dominated & EING a woman is a terribly difficult trade,” said Joseph Conrad, “since it consists principally of dealing with men.” And this may be nowhere truer than in financial services. For although women make up the majority of ...
... work colleague who transforms himself into a dancefloor dervish. Amy Foster is an unashamedly romantic adaptation of a Joseph Conrad story that comes complete with rugged Cornish landscapes, stunningly beautiful cinematography, gushing music and rhubarbing ...
... suites 2, 3 and 5, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, tomorrow ‘at 8. 041-332 3123 (fax 353 4134). vision: Mike Leigh out of Joseph Conrad. The setting is the compound of a French civil engineering project in Africa, where the stultifying heat and tedium surrounding ...
... for the figure of a Crusader’.” He raised the ghost of a laugh when he added that if ‘nigfierr’ were to be condemned then Joseph Conrad would have to find a new title for the Narcissus. vell — Maxwell, , Boyd, O'Neill, | p, McCart, Ar-;m. Cusack . m, 55) ...
... tributes of the Ameri- can critics are to be believed, ranks with the best of Graham Greene and, as if that weren't enough, Joseph Conrad. Praise like that has a habit of making one sit up and pay attention. And, it is true, there is much to admire in this ...