Mott the Hoople (03-01-2020)
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^^ A fine trio of writers.
My pick for the greatest writer of English prose in the modern era is Joseph Conrad. Which is pretty weird since he was Polish and didn't learn English until well into his 20s.
In some respects, English translations of Solzhenitsyn, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky do not do full justice to the prose in the original Russian, nonetheless even in translation one can really sense the talent and vision these writers had.
Mott the Hoople (03-01-2020)
Someone mentioned Joseph Conrad. Did you know he lived in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex for several years, very close to where I was brought up? He wrote the Nigger of the Narcissus and started writing Heart of Darkness there. He probably chose the location as it is very close to the River Thames. It's strange to think that he spoke without a trace of accent when speaking French but had a heavily Polish accent when speaking English yet he chose English for all his great writings, true genius.
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Mott the Hoople (03-01-2020)
It is indeed, he loved the Thames and London. By contrast Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski aka Joseph Conrad travelled to the Congo, made one return trip on the river, from Kinshasa to Kisangani, and decided that was enough for him. He was signed up for three years but he had seen enough and quit, never to return.
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Mott the Hoople (03-02-2020)
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