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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today
Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrads destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.
Joseph Conrad was born Jzef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the worlds oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive new imperialism that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines, and the hypocrisy of the wests most cherished ideals.
In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrads routes and the stories of his four greatest worksThe Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrads worldand through it to our own.
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Libertys Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 17501850
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Illustration Credits
: Joseph Conrad sitting in a chair, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Map Credits
The David Rumsey Map Collection, www.davidrumsey.com.
LIBRARY OF C ONGRESS CATALOGING-I N-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Jasanoff, Maya
Title: The dawn watch : Joseph Conrad in a global world / Maya Jasanoff.
Other titles: Joseph Conrad in a global world
Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017025117 (print) | LCCN 2017036411 (ebook) | ISBN 9780698137479 (ebook) | ISBN 9781594205811 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924KnowledgeGlobalization. | Novelists, English20th centuryBiography. | Globalization in literature. | Imperialism in literature. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
Classification: LCC PR6005.O4 (ebook) | LCC PR6005.O4 Z7475 2017 (print) |
DDC 823/.912 [B]dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017025117
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For the friends who have traveled with me.
I am the world itself, come to pay you a visit.
J OSEPH C ONRAD , Victory (1915)
LIST OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
: Ewa Korzeniowska, ne Bobrowska.
: Apollo Korzeniowski.
: Konrad Korzeniowski in Vologda, and an early piece of his writing.
: Artur Grottger, Mourning News (1863).
: Tadeusz Bobrowski, Conrads uncle and guardian.
: Krakw in Konrads youth: the market square and St. Marys Church.
: Konrad Korzeniowski as a teenager.
: An advertisement in The Times, September 25, 1878.
: A birds-eye view of the City of London in 1880.
: The frontispiece of Edward Fawcett, Hartmann the Anarchist (1893).
: The Duke of Sutherland as entered into Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping (1867).
: The Duke of Sutherland moored at Sydneys Circular Quay, 1871.
: Conrads Certificate of Competency as Master, 1886.
: First Mate Konrad Korzeniowski with the apprentices on board the Torrens, ca. 1893.
: A Singapore street.
: Boat Quay, on the Singapore River.
: Singapore shipping routes, ca. 1880.
: Bill of lading from the SS Vidar.
: A river in Borneo in Conrads time.
: Johnston Quay, Singapore.
: A report of the sinking of the Jeddah in The Pall Mall Gazette, August 11, 1880.
: Conrads navigational chart of the Gulf of Siam.
: Fountain of Silvius Brabo in Antwerp, inaugurated in 1887.
: Henry Morton Stanley in London after he found David Livingstone.
: Tippu Tib in Congo.
: douard Manduau, La Civilisation au Congo (188485).
: The Roi des Belges.
: Construction of the railroad near Matadi.
: Porters on the road from Matadi to Lopoldville.
: Pirogues alongside the Roi des Belges.
: A page from Conrads Up-River Book.
: Fishermen at Stanley Falls.
: Atrocities in Congo from E. D. Morel, King Leopolds Rule in Africa (1904).
: Jessie George on the day of her marriage to Joseph Conrad.
: Joseph Conrad on the day of his marriage to Jessie George.
: Pent Farm, Kent, the Conrads home from 1898 to 1907.
: R. B. Cunninghame Graham on his horse Malacarita.
: W. A. Rogers, The Great American Durbar, c. 1905.
: The first-edition dust jacket of Chance.
: The Conrad familys passport.
: Conrad and his cousin Aniela Zagrska.
: Conrad on board HMS Ready in 1916.
: Portrait of Joseph Conrad by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1916.
: Conrad in the garden at Oswalds in 1924.
LIST OF
MAPS
: The Travels of Joseph Conrad.
: Joseph Conrads major fiction. xxxxi
: Imperial and global networks in 1900.
: Partitioned Poland in the year of Conrads birth. 1415
: Shipping routes in the Indian Ocean, 1872. 8687
: Africa in Conrads youth. 152
: Africa in Conrads adulthood, carved into European colonies. 153
: Map of the Congo Free State. 17677
: The American empire, 1904. 240
: Map of sailing distances reduced by a canal in Central America, 1901. 265
I T WAS HARD TO GET TO C ONGO. With ongoing civil war in the east, the south a shadow state carved up by international mining companies, and political protest surging in the capital, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was by many measures one of the worlds most dysfunctional states. Though a country of abundant natural resources, it sits near the bottom of the United Nations Human Development Index, and has the second-lowest per capita gross national income in the world. This, in other words, was the heart of darkness. And thats why I wanted to go.
First I needed a visa, and to get that I needed a notarized Prise en Charge, or sponsorship guarantee, from somebody in Congo. Through a fixer in Kinshasa I eventually received a yellow document riddled with stamps and signatures in purple, green, and blue. I counted two dozen in all: from the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Director General of Immigration, the Public Services Bureau, the Immigration Police, the Mayors Office, multiple notaries, administrators, and section chiefs. Some had pictures of panthers and spears. I paid more than $500 to get it.
I sent the application for my visa to Washington and booked a plane ticket for more than two months later. I turned to planning what Id do there. I got in touch with anyone I could think of who had any connection to Congo and contacted everyone they suggested in turn. I arranged an itinerary with an intrepid tour operator that would fly me deep inland to Kisangani, and then travel by boat a thousand miles around the bend of the Congo River, back to Kinshasa. The journey would cost me a lot, despite extremely basic conditions, but thats what I was told it took for a Western female tourist to travel safely (with full-time escorts) in one of the worlds least touristed destinations.
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