News Archive
Cambridge Edition: Volumes in 2013
The co-general editors of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad are pleased to announce that two volumes, the twelfth and thirteenth, respectively, are currently in press and due to appear this summer and autumn.
The Shadow-Line, edited by J. H. Stape and Allan H. Simmons with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, is due out in September 2013. The critical text dispenses with the chapter divisions imposed by serialization and presents the novella, for the first time, as a continuous narrative.
The Secret Agent, a play inspired by the novel by Joseph Conrad
A play inspired by The Secret Agent will be performed by theatre O at the Young Vic, 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London, SE1 8LZ, from 4 to 21 September 2013.
Co-commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre and supported by the Arts Council England, Shoreditch Town Hall, and the National Theatre Studio, The Secret Agent is theatre O’s heartbreaking but hilarious chronicle of passion, betrayal and terrorism, performed in their highly imaginative trademark cinematic style, which The New York Times has called ‘vivid, enlightening, inventive and compelling’.
For more information, including performance times and ticket prices, see the official Young Vic website.
Exhibition: ‘The Secret Agent, or The Enigma of the Knitting Machine’
An interactive exhibition, titled ‘The Secret Agent, or The Enigma of the Knitting Machine’, is scheduled for 13–16 September 2013 in The Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, Deptford, London. This is a collaborative work between Zoe Wagner, a textile designer, and Annina Lehmann, a writer and film-maker.
The exhibition explores the parallels of story-telling and knitting with regard to Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent and a letter he wrote to Cunninghame Graham, in which Conrad describes the fantasy of existence being controlled by a knitting machine. It integrates contemporary concerns with issues such as surveillance and terrorism, which received early and insightful treatment in Conrad’s novel.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Sotheby’s Auction of Books and Manuscripts by Conrad
A remarkable Joseph Conrad collection, billed as the “greatest single-author hoard” ever to appear on the market, is to be sold at auction at Sotheby’s in London this summer. The collection was assembled by Stanley J. Seeger, who died in 2011.
The collection will be sold in two sales, both with around 200 lots. See the following brief announcement from The Guardian online; or, for a full catalogue of items to be auctioned, click here.
The first sale took place on 10 July 2013; full results of that sale are now listed on Sotheby’s website.
Conrad in Persian
Soheil Sommi, an Iranian translator of works by Doris Lessing, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Samuel Beckett, has now translated Conrad’s The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Shadow-Line, and Typhoon into Persian.
See the following brief announcement from the Iran Book News Agency website.
A second printing of The Rescue, translated by Kiomars Parsay, has also been published in Iran after 12 years. Read that announcement here.
Rome Conference: July 2013 (final programme revised 3 May)
The 39th Annual International Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) will be held in Rome, 10 – 13 July 2013. Hosted by Professor Richard Ambrosini, the conference will take place at the Università di Roma Tre and other venues in the historic city.
The Call for Papers is now CLOSED. The Conference Programme, travel details, and information on hotel accommodations are available on the Annual Conference page.
The 1st Annual Conference of the Joseph Conrad Society of Japan
The Joseph Conrad Society of Japan will be holding its 1st Annual Conference in Tokyo this summer.
This is a one-day conference, scheduled for Saturday, 22 June 2013, from 10:00 – 17:00. It will take place at Atomi University, Bunkyo Campus, Tokyo, Rms. M2606 and M2604, No. 2 Building. The location is 3 minutes’ walk from Marunouchi Line’s Myogadani underground station.
See the attached flier for more details.
Screening of Hanyut (Almayer’s Folly) with post-film panel discussion
The Culture Capital Exchange (Somerset House) will present U-Wei Haji Saan’s Hanyut, an award-winning adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s first novel, Almayer’s Folly (1895). After the film there will be a short break followed by a panel discussion with the director.
This event is scheduled for Thursday, 6 June 2013. It will take place at: 2nd floor, South Building, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA. Guests will arrive at 5:30 PM for the 6 PM screening of the film, with the panel discussion to follow from 8:15 PM to 9 PM.
The cost is free (there will, however, be a no-show fee of £20).
See the TCCE website for booking and details.
Call for Papers: Joseph Conrad
This panel will take place at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference in Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013.
The organizers welcome papers on any aspect of Joseph Conrad’s life or work. Presenters will have 15-minutes of delivery time.
Please submit abstracts (250-300 words) by May 15, 2013 to Hunt Hawkins, University of South Florida.