Conrad and Literary Contributions/ Periods by Paula and Olivia :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Conrad was basically Marlow and Kurtz combined. Let's just start there.
In context of Heart of Darkness, he first went to the Congo, then he tried to commit suicide, then married a woman who really wasn't the one who stole his heart, he had disappointing children with her (in his eyes anyway), and then he wrote a book about all his feels. So there's that.
He also lost both of his parents to TB, and therefore had to live with his uncle. Hey, that's funny, there was this uncle in Heart of Darkness whose nephew lived with him. How 'bout that?
He became acclimated to his style of writing and sense of literacy at a young age through sailing and through his father, whose love of sailing and poetry rubbed off on Conrad like green that rubs off on your skin from a two dollar ring.
Conrad's career can be divided into three major periods.
1) He was getting accustomed to the weird English literary culture, which, at first, made no sense to him. With this, he wrote his first novel The N****r of the Narcissus. It's about his "in between" period as a writer. It's his tween stage of his writing life (which, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is like the awkward transition between childhood and adolescence.) His thing was that he was trying to put Frenchy techniques into a novel meant for the English. It was... somewhat successful. Sort of.
2) Conrad had a baby. More specifically, he had a son. It is "arguably the most prolific period time" of his writing career. It was during this time that he wrote Youth, Lord Jim, and Heart of Darkness. In each novel, Marlow stars as the main character, as he tries to identify with the English audience. Does he succeed? I DON'T KNOW!
3) His third stage starts in 1904, with the publication of Nostromo. This novel was mostly based on his journey to the Caribbean and Venezuela in his teenage years. Similar to Heart of Darkness, this novel comments on imperialism and the vulnerability of man. Even though he'd written multiple books by this time, it wasn't until Change was published that he was financially sound. It wasn't much later that he died as a result of a heart attack.