![]() ![]() He wrote his best-known works in the years just before and after the turn of the century: Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), and Nostromo (1904). He quickly won critical praise, though financial success eluded him for many years and both he and his wife suffered serious illnesses. ![]() He published his first novel ( Almayer's Folly) in 1894. The novels narrator presents Marlow as 'a meditating Buddha' because his experiences in the Congo have made him introspective and to a certain degree philosophic and wise. For the next eight years, Conrad continued to work as a sailor (even spending time commanding a steamship in the Belgian Congo), and continued to write. Heart of Darkness Marlow Character Analysis Marlow Marlow is a thirty-two-year-old sailor who has always lived at sea. It was about this time he changed his name to the more British-sounding Joseph Conrad and published his first short stories (he wrote in English, his third language after Polish and French). ![]() Eventually, he began to sail on British ships, and became a British citizen in 1886, at the age of 29. At seventeen, he traveled to Marseilles and began to work as a sailor. Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was an orphan by the age of 12 his mother and father both died as a result of time the family spent in exile in Siberia for plotting against the Russian Tsar. ![]()
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