The publishing house in Cieza is launching a new collection in its catalog. It is the
The Irremediable Classical Library, which will publish masterpieces by great authors
and authors of world literature.
His publishers have decided to start with Joseph Conrad and his novel Nostromo.
In the coming months, works by Carmen de Burgos and Franz Kafka will be published.
Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Émile Zola, among others.
Once again, the publisher has made a special effort to offer an edition
A carefully crafted, worthy final product for the reader and respectful of the author's work.
a process that has led to involvement in attention to detail in editorial production
to create a high-quality book.
Nostromo is considered by some
critics hailed Joseph Conrad's masterpiece and
great English novel of the 19th century.
Inspired by real events that
The author heard in the Gulf of Mexico, it develops
in a fictional country, Costaguana, specifically
in the port city of Sulaco, where
focuses on the lives of the characters and the action
fundamental to the novel.
Revolutions are in Costaguana
An endemic problem. Sulaco will eventually separate and
will form an independent republic.
contrast between the upper classes
Europeanizers, and the dazzled common people
In the face of power and bloodshed, it is a recurring theme in
Conrad's work.
The character of Nostromo, hero and
antihero, loved by some, envied by
Others, feared by many, and admired by
Everyone confronts themselves to question themselves
values such as loyalty to an ideal, honor, the
loyalty, remorse, jealousy, fear of physical pain, betrayal, death…
Conrad's mastery is present in each of the characters in this work.
with a background of satire and tenderness.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). His original name was Joseph Theodor Konrad.
Korzeniowski. He adopted the name Joseph Conrad upon becoming a British citizen.
At 17 he enlisted as a sailor and developed his passion for adventure,
Travel, the sea, and ships. A few years later he arrives in England where
She is fluent in and masters the English language, the language in which she wrote all her work and in which she...
He would become one of its classic authors. At 38, he left his maritime career.
to delve into literature.
Some of his most important works are: Almayer's Madness (1895), The
The Black Man of Narcissus (1897), Lord Jim (1900), Heart of Darkness (1902), The
Duel (1907), The Shadow Line (1917), The Rescue (1920) and The Pirate (1923).
Nostromo (1904) is considered by critics to be his masterpiece.