Frases de Joseph Conrad

Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, más conocido como Joseph Conrad , fue un novelista polaco que adoptó el inglés como lengua literaria.[1]​ Conrad, cuya obra explora la vulnerabilidad y la inestabilidad moral del ser humano, es considerado como uno de los más grandes novelistas de la literatura inglesa. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. diciembre 1857 – 3. agosto 1924
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Frases célebres de Joseph Conrad

Frases de hombres de Joseph Conrad

“Él atraía a los hombres por lo que en ellos había de más valioso.”

Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.

“Los hombres que vienen aquí no deberían tener entrañas.”

Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.

Frases de vida de Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad Frases y Citas

“La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.”

El corazón de las tinieblas y otros relatos

“La creencia en una fuente sobrenatural del mal no es necesaria; el hombre por si mismo es muy capaz de cualquier maldad.”

Fuente: Citado en Canales, Carlos, del Rey Miguel. Campos de muerte: Geografía del mal. Editorial EDAF, 2016. ISBN 9788441436367.

“Vivimos igual que soñamos: solos.”

Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.

Joseph Conrad: Frases en inglés

“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

Joseph Conrad libro An Outcast of the Islands

Fuente: An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Pt. 3, Ch. 2; possibly an adaptation of a Polish proverb, "Ten się nie myli, kto nic nie robi" — "One is not wrong, who does nothing."

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”

Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. II, ch. 4
Fuente: Under Western Eyes (1911)

“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”

Joseph Conrad libro The Mirror of the Sea

Fuente: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 35
Contexto: For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

“We live as we dream--alone….”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.”

Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Variante: My task is to make you hear, to make you feel, and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything.
Fuente: Lord Jim

“All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”

Joseph Conrad libro The Secret Agent

Fuente: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 3
Contexto: All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production — by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by the capitalist for the protection of property are responsible for anarchism. No one can tell what form the social organisation may take in the future. Then why indulge in prophetic phantasies? At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. Leave that pastime to the moralists, my boy.

“All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force.”

Joseph Conrad libro The Secret Agent

Fuente: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 13
Contexto: All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.

“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”

Joseph Conrad libro Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Contexto: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

“The horror! The horror!”

Joseph Conrad libro El corazón de las tinieblas

Fuente: Heart of Darkness

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