Joseph Conrad

Martin Seymour-Smith has edited several editons of Conrad for Penguin and Everyman. In this new and brilliant critical introduction to Conrad, he for the first time lays proper emphasis upon how the creative process worked itself out in the ever-reluctant Pole, and in particular discusses the power and crucial influence of Conrad's closest friend - the only man whom he would allow to write parts of his work - Ford Madox Ford. In addition to re-illuminating the work of Conrad, Seymour-Smith provides a characteristically ironic and scathing commentary on many of the things that Conrad himself satirised: social arrangements, contemporary criticism. He shows conclusively exactly how Conrad always "seems contemporary, always to be writing about now."

120  pages

ISBN: 978-1-871551-18-1