Idea of Progress in "An Outpost of Progress" by Joseph Conrad
Emijuliet Barrios García
C.I.: 18846578
English Literature I
Professor Anderzon Medina
January 24, 2011
The Criticism to the idea of “progress” in “An outpost of progress” by Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski is the author of the short story we work with; he was born in Berdyczów, Ukraine on 3 December 1857. “His father Apollo Korzeniowski was an aristocrat without lands, a poet and translator of Shakespeare and Dickens and French literature” and his mother “Eva Bobrowska, was thirteen years younger than Apollo and the only surviving daughter in a family of six sons.” When Joseph Conrad, as he later change his name, was a child he lived several changes in his life like moving to Vologda, because of the arrestment of his father by Imperial Russian authorities in Warsaw in order to organize what would become the January Uprising (revolt against Russian Empire) another change was the death of his mother, she died of tuberculosis as well as his father. Because of all these changes Conrad developed health problems, which were with him throughout his life. After his parent’s death he went to Switzerland to live with his maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowsk, from who he learned a lot of things. His uncle hired a Cracow University student to continue the education he received from his father, tutoring him Latin, Greek, Geography and others; however soon his tutor learned that Conrad yearned to travel on the seas and go to the “dark continent” of Africa. As a result of this desire that Conrad had about sailing he started “in the mid-1870s he joined the French merchant marine as an apprentice, and made between 1875 and 1878 three voyages to the West Indies. During his youth Conrad also was involved in arms smuggling for the Carlist cause in Spain. After being wounded in a duel or of a self-inflicted gunshot in the chest, Conrad continued his career at the seas in the British merchant navy for 16 years”
According to Petri Liukkonen in his biography of
C.I.: 18846578
English Literature I
Professor Anderzon Medina
January 24, 2011
The Criticism to the idea of “progress” in “An outpost of progress” by Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski is the author of the short story we work with; he was born in Berdyczów, Ukraine on 3 December 1857. “His father Apollo Korzeniowski was an aristocrat without lands, a poet and translator of Shakespeare and Dickens and French literature” and his mother “Eva Bobrowska, was thirteen years younger than Apollo and the only surviving daughter in a family of six sons.” When Joseph Conrad, as he later change his name, was a child he lived several changes in his life like moving to Vologda, because of the arrestment of his father by Imperial Russian authorities in Warsaw in order to organize what would become the January Uprising (revolt against Russian Empire) another change was the death of his mother, she died of tuberculosis as well as his father. Because of all these changes Conrad developed health problems, which were with him throughout his life. After his parent’s death he went to Switzerland to live with his maternal uncle, Tadeusz Bobrowsk, from who he learned a lot of things. His uncle hired a Cracow University student to continue the education he received from his father, tutoring him Latin, Greek, Geography and others; however soon his tutor learned that Conrad yearned to travel on the seas and go to the “dark continent” of Africa. As a result of this desire that Conrad had about sailing he started “in the mid-1870s he joined the French merchant marine as an apprentice, and made between 1875 and 1878 three voyages to the West Indies. During his youth Conrad also was involved in arms smuggling for the Carlist cause in Spain. After being wounded in a duel or of a self-inflicted gunshot in the chest, Conrad continued his career at the seas in the British merchant navy for 16 years”
According to Petri Liukkonen in his biography of
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