The Dawn Watch
Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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Narrado por:
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Laurel Lekfow
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Maya Jasanoff
“Enlightening, compassionate, superb” (John Le Carré)
Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize.
A New York Times Book Review notable book of 2017.
One of the New York Times 100 notable books 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 Conrad's destiny at the dawn of the 20th 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 Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At 16 he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor and for the next 20 years travelled the world's 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 West's most cherished ideals.
In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad's routes and the stories of his four greatest works - The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad's world - and through it to our own.
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"Fascinating…[Conrad’s] art, which he defined as the capacity to make readers hear, feel and see, as able to capture the contradictions within empires and the resistance to them. This is the Conrad who comes alive in Jasanoff’s masterful study. The Dawn Watch will become a creative companion to all students of his work. It has made me want to re-establish connections with the Conrad whose written sentences once inspired in me the same joy as a musical phrase.” (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The New York Times Book Review)
“The Dawn Watch is the most vivid and suggestive biography of Conrad ever written...[a] beautifully written book." (The Wall Street Journal)
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What made the experience of listening to The Dawn Watch the most enjoyable?
Excellent biography of fascinating subject.Who was your favorite character and why?
Conrad himself, of course.Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Laurel Lekfow?
Many narrators would have been better than Laurel Lekfow. She is amateurish and not suited to the subject, and her reading is marred by mispronunciation of words such as "executor" and "ensign."Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. The failings of the narrator actually made it painful to listen to.Poor Narration Mars Excellent Book
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a fantastic account the brilliant writer.
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Eyeopening biography of interest to Conradians and history lovers
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The Audible edition is further elevated by the captivating performance of narrator Susan Lyons, whose voice lends gravity and elegance to the text. Lyons paces the narrative with intelligence and sensitivity, maintaining clarity through complex passages while letting the emotional resonance of Jasanoff’s prose shine through. Her narration transforms the listening experience into something intimate and immersive, mirroring the interiority and moral questioning that defined Conrad’s fiction. Whether one is familiar with Conrad’s work or approaching him for the first time, the Audible version offers an accessible and moving way to engage with this rich intellectual biography.
The epilogue of The Dawn Watch is especially moving—a lyrical coda that blends memoir, literary reflection, and a final meditation on the Congo as a place not obscured by darkness, but as a place with glimmers of hope. Jasanoff’s journey aboard a cargo ship serves as both homage to Conrad’s maritime world and a poignant reminder of how interconnected, fragile, and morally fraught our globalized world remains. In tracing the echoes of Conrad’s anxieties in today’s geopolitics, she offers a final gift: an elegiac vision that leaves the reader with both awe and unease. It’s a quietly stunning conclusion to a biography that is as profound in spirit as it is ambitious in scope.
Must read for those who have studied and loved Conrad
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Oh, the narrator!
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A Biography Worthy of Joseph Conrad.
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Intriguing listen
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Informative and entertaining
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- Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch
I should admit I was attracted to the book, while browsing at Las Vegas' fantastic bookstore Writers Block by four things: 1. the art (done by the Bill Bragg), 2. the le Carré blurb (if you don't know, late le Carré has a heavy Conrad flavor, 3. Conrad himself. I've read about 2/3 of what he has produced and love him more with every word, 4. the concept of Conrad as the dawn watch of globalization, and perhaps even modernity. The book was brisk, interesting, and filled with enough Conrad prose to almost dance. Jasanoff's writing is meant more for the New York Times Magazine crowd than the academic crowd, but if you enjoy Conrad this book will not disappoint. It isn't brilliant history or biography, but she manages to blend the edges of history, biography, and literary analysis and keep all three balls afloat. No easy feat. She is also able to thread the needle between cutting Conrad too much slack and too little for his views. Also, no easy feat.
For me Conrad is one of the great writers of the late 19th, early 20th century. He enchants and haunts at the same time. He is a fascinating character, but more than that, he is a damn fine complicated writer. Jasanoff explores Conrad's world, and in this exploration, she attempts to show us another way to view our own. "In all his writing", says Jasanoff, "Conrad grappled with the ramifications of living in a global world: the moral and material impact of dislocation, the tension and opportunity of multiethnic societies, the disruption wrought by technological change." Conrad understood us before there really was an us. Conrad saw us before the sun had even risen on the 20th and 21st centuries.
History is like therapy for the present
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