and other Tales, Joseph Conrad
Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun inand serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in JanuaryMarch.
Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in,
The "Typhoon" describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the SS NanShan, a Britishbuilt steamer running under the Siamese flag, into a typhoona mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean.
Other characters include the young Jukes, most probably an alter ego of Conrad from the time he had sailed under captain John McWhirr, and Solomon Rout, the chief engineer.
The novella classically evokes the seafaring life at the turn of the century, While Macwhirr, who, according to Conrad, "never walked on this Earth" is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternative course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration.
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز سوم ماه نوامبر سالمیلادی
عنوان: مرز سایه نویسنده: جوزف کنراد مترجم: سهیل سمی تهران ققنوسدرص فروست: شاهکارهای رمان کوتاه سه شابکچاپ دومدرص موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی سدهم
ناخدای رمان مرز سایه در شرایطی کاملا خوب دل از کار و همکارانش و زندگی اجتماعی میبرد و گوشه ی انزوا برمیگزیند و تا مرز فروپاشی عصبی و فروافتادن به دل سایه ها پیش میرود اما به ترغیب دوستی دنیا دیده کار تازه ای برمیگزیند تا از دل تیرگی مرگ خارج شود,
نقل از رمان مرز سایه: در زندگی یک خط سایه وجود دارد مرزی که هشدار میدهد با گذر از آن از حیطه ی خامی و جوانی گذشته اید. گذر از این مرز با گذراندن آزمونی بسیار دشوار امکان مییابد این شاید همان چیزی باشد که روانشناسان از آن با عنوان بحران روحی میانسالی یاد میکنند مرز سایه مرز گذشتن از حیطه ی اعتماد به نفس ناپخته و خام جوانی و توهم ساده لوحانه ی چیرگی بر خود و تقدیر و پا گذاشتن به عرصه ی شناخت خویش و ضعفهای خود و در نتیجه رسیدن به توانایی تسلط بر نفس خویش است پایان نقل
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی هجری خورشیدی ا. شربیانی "a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing Whywhat else would you have to fight against"
Joseph Conrad, The ShadowLine
One of Conrad's later novels.
This one was published in, The story is pretty straight forward, the plot direct, It isn't an elaborate story, but one that explores that moment, that shadowline between youth and adulthood, The basic story involves a young officer, suddenly thrust into command, During his first voyage he is tested and learns about strength, duty, obligation, etc, It is a story about maturity, wisdom, experience,
I'm not sure if my love of sea stories is directly tied to Conrad, or if my love of Conrad comes from my love of sea stories.
The genre and the writer are both so closely mixed in my brain, What I do know is I love the morality of Conrad, I love his affection for men, for work, for duty, for the sea, I also love his modernist bent toward psychology and the untidy unknown, Mostly, I love the clean, tight precision of his prose which often conflicts with his ambiguous narratives, This isn't topshelf Conrad, but shouldn't be ignored by his devoted fans, Written in, The ShadowLine is based upon events and experiences from twentyseven years earlier to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction, A young sea captain's first command brings with it a succession of crises: his sea is becalmed, the crew laid low by fever, and his deranged first mate is convinced that the ship is haunted by the malignant spirit of a previous captain.
This is indeed a work full of "sudden passions," in which Conrad is able to show how the full intensity of existence can be experienced by the man who, in the words of the older Captain Giles, is prepared to "stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience.
" A subtle and penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood, The ShadowLine investigates varieties of masculinity and desire in a subtext that counters the tale's seemingly conventional surface.
“Caminamos, y el tiempo también camina, hasta que, de pronto, vemos ante nosotros una línea de sombra advirtiéndonos que también habrá que dejar tras de nosotros la región de nuestra primera juventud.
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Amo leer historias de mar, de aventuras marinas, barcos, capitanes, oficiales a bordo, piratas o conquistadores y siempre declaro que "Moby Dick" es mi libro preferido de todos los tiempos.
Cuando uno quiere adentrarse en este tipo de aventuras debe siempre apoyarse en tres grandes exponentes de este tipo de relatos: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson y naturalmente, Joseph Conrad.
Sin estos tres grandes escritores, este tipo de novelas serían una rareza o un tipo de literatura menor, Ellos transformaron al mar en uno de los personajes más importantes de la literatura,
En "La línea de sombra", Conrad vuelve a captar mi atención, como en otros libros suyos que leí, en primer lugar el fantástico, bello y contundente estilo narrativo, con su lenguaje refinado y convincente.
En segundo lugar, porque cada una de sus historias cuenta con un encanto particular,
En esta corta novela suya, el personaje principal, un joven capitán que se hace a la mar por primera vez al mando de un barco, el 'Melita', sufre la extraña irrupción de una fiebre tropical que ataca y enferma a toda su tripulación con la excepción de él, aunque debe apoyarse en su primer oficial Burns y su cocinero Ransome, quienes no están tan afectados como el resto.
Pareciera ser que el barco está condenado, Su anterior capitán también ha muerto en circunstancias similares a bordo del barco y el temo y la desconfianza se apodera de él y de todos.
De buenas a primeras, el barco entrará en altamar casi a la deriva y quedará a merced del viento, un clima opresivo y una tensión nerviosa que irá mellando rápidamente el ánimo de todos los marinos a bordo.
En contraposición a su otra novela "Tifón", donde la acción desesperante no da descanso al lector, nos encontramos con un situación de tensísima calma y estado de suspenso en el que uno no sabe cómo puede terminar la historia.
La carga psicológica del joven capitán va en un crescendo constante y sobre el
capítulo final Conrad nos irá llevando muy de a poco a un desenlace que cuando comenzamos a leer el libro no imaginamos.
Le quedará a este hombre la única opción de enfrentar su destino y las circunstancias adversas que puedan surgir, como en la vida, pues este es el significado real de la novela.
Sólo escritores del calibre de Conrad pueden lograr que en pocas páginas que la acción, sea intensa o no, logre absorber la atención del lector para no poder despegar sus ojos del libro.
Joseph Conrad nunca me decepciona, The ShadowLine by Joseph Conrad describes that demarcation line in the journey of life that divides the happy, bright, fantastic and irresponsible youth with the darker ages of manhood.
Conrad goes on to delineate this vision as being beyond the “charm and innocence of illusions”,
The ShadowLine is one of his most accomplished nautical tales and stands close to sitelinkTyphoon and sitelinkYouth as almost entirely about the sea and mans relationship to a vessel.
Whereas Youth was of a young mans first venture to sea, The ShadowLine documents a young seamans first command of a ship, and Conrad expertly relates this mature coming of age to the growing up of a boy to a man.
In a succession of maturity, Conrads novels could be linked as follows: Youth, Shadow Line, sitelinkThe End of the Tether, One of his better stories also because he includes comic elements as well and this tragicomic delivery helps to soften his usual dark themes,
Ho sempre amato questo romanzo di Conrad, Lo rileggo regolarmente quando la calmeria di scirocco rende laria irrespirabile, Rivivo col protagonista quel primo comando di una nave, una nave tutta sua cui dedica uno sguardo che molte donne probabilmente invidierebbero:
“La mia nave era.
. . una di quelle creature che, solo per il fatto di esistere, risvegliano nellanimo un piacere disinteressato, Si sente che è bello vivere nel mondo nel quale esse vivono, Si irradiava da lei quellillusione di vita e di carattere che è propria degli oggetti più belli creati dalla mano delluomo,
Che coserano ormai per me tutti i paesi del globo terrestre In tutte le parti del mondo, bagnate da acque navigabili, il nostro rapporto sarebbe stato identico e più intimo e stretto di quanto le parole non possano esprimere.
Al di fuori di questo, qualsiasi scena, qualsiasi episodio sarebbero stati immagini meramente effimere”,
È una storia di passione e di iniziazione, il racconto di quando si supera allimprovviso quella linea dombra che “ci avvisa che bisogna lasciarsi alle spalle anche la regione della prima giovinezza”.
È la vita da marinaio che il protagonista si rende conto di amare sopra ogni cosa, quella solidarietà tra uomini legati dalle difficoltà di una navigazione non sempre sicura e non sempre facile.
È il mare a colmare il senso di vuoto iniziale e la fine del viaggio lo troverà cambiato, .