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By Joseph Conrad
A Personal Record
by Joseph Conrad
Conrad began dictating the series of loose autobiographical sketches that
would become 'A Personal Record' in 1911, when he was half way through
writing 'Under Western Eyes'. His avowed aim was to give his readers a
sense of 'the man behind the work', and he certainly succeeded in creating
a vivid impression of the kind of Joseph Conrad he would have liked to
have been seen as: a man capable of wry humour and self-deprecation, but
a sober, serious man too, prepared to face life as he found it. While some
of the moments Conrad recalls seem slight enough in themselves - a
general's daughter barges into his room while he is writing the end of
‘Nostromo’; he supervises the unloading of a pony for the real Almayer up
a river in Borneo - his manner of interweaving various episodes, abruptly
dropping one and leaping to another epoch of his life, interspersing all with
reflections on life and his own art - all this is Conrad at his most engaging.
(Summary by Peter Dann)
Read by Peter Dann Total running time: 4:37:56
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