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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (430382)	6/6/2011 3:19:28 PM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski;[1] 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist.[2] Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English,[3] though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and then always with a marked Polish accent). He wrote stories and novels, predominantly with a nautical or seaboard setting, that depict trials of the human spirit by the demands of duty and honour. en.wikipedia.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (430382)	6/6/2011 4:53:48 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

"There are lots of emigré authors who made a success in their new language. Nabokov, Kundera, Wiesel are three off the top of my head." True but she outsold them all and was female, a jew and poor. No one would have bet on the odds of her surviving and eventually thriving. PLAYBOY: What about Nabokov? RAND: I have read only one book of his and a half -- the half was Lolita, which I couldn't finish. He is a brilliant stylist, he writes beautifully, but his subjects, his sense of life, his view of man, are so evil that no amount of artistic skill can justify them. ellensplace.net