Joseph Conrad by Ford Madox Ford - 9781108060943

Joseph ConradA Personal Remembrance\nAuthor(s): Ford Madox Ford\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108060943, 978-1108060943\nSynopsis\nDetermined not to write a biography about his friend Joseph Conrad [tel] in the usual dry style, Ford Madox Ford [tel] instead produced a novel. As a result, some biographical facts are given less emphasis than others, in particular the acrimony which later blighted relations between the two men. But the work is distinguished by its liveliness and by a wealth of vivid detail. Ford describes Conrad's remarkably long-eared horse, his haphazard use of adverbs and their fraught collaboration over their second joint novel, Romance, during which Ford's carefully unexciting style provoked the adventure-loving Conrad to depression. Ford's impressionistic portrayal of Conrad as an elegant, likeable swindler and 'beautiful genius' strikes a far richer chord than a purely .