{"id":84,"date":"2024-06-26T18:37:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.cfipress.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2024-06-28T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:08:00","slug":"our-daily-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.cfipress.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/our-daily-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Tome: The Dawn Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 26, 2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Any book by or about Joseph Conrad enjoys a privileged position in my library. This one was bought on November 21, 2017, from a third party bookseller on Amazon for \u20ac19.21. A veritable steal for the thrilling read it offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World<\/em> by Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff is counted amongst my favorites. The book, N\u00ba 2704 in my library, sits between a Penguin edition of Design as Art<\/em> (Bruno Munari) and Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad<\/em> (MT Anderson), another prized possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maya Jasanoff combines history, travel, and biography to immerse the reader in Conrad’s world. She traces his travels to the source of his four best-known works: The Secret Agent<\/em>, Lord Jim<\/em>, Heart of Darkness<\/em>, and Nostromo<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00f3zef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in 1857 to Polish exiles in imperial Russia. He spent the first four decades of his life as an immigrant in London and a sailor aboard French and British ships. He started writing just before the turn of the nineteenth century with vivid descriptions of the increasingly interconnected imperial world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whereas Conrad used his own experiences to write fiction, Janasoff does the exact opposite and employs Conrad’s writings – plus historical records – to reconstruct his life. Although he became known as a British sea novelist, none of Conrad’s writings are set in the then-sprawling British empire. Likewise, his cast of characters are seldom contains British subjects. A citizen of a newly globalised world, Conrad adds his voice to the rising anti-imperialist sentiment of the time, though never publicly. He was remarkably dismissive of ideology, considering it a mere excuse for the seizure of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Details<\/summary>\n
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  • The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World<\/em> by Maya Jasanoff<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Penguin 2017<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • ISBN 978-1-5942-0581-1<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 375 pp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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