/lit/ - Literature

What is your opinion on Joseph Conrad?

For me, it's Nostromo.

Rudyard Kipling or Robert Louis Stevenson?
Evelyn Waugh or Graham Greene?
George Orwell or Aldous Huxley?
William Golding or Anthony Burgess?
James Joyce or Samuel Beckett?
E.M. Forster or Virginia Woolf?
D.H. Lawrence or Joseph Conrad?
William Butler Yeats or W.H. Auden?
Gore Vidal or Norman Mailer?

Polish /lit/
I have a polish friend and he's unironically smarter than Einstein, as well as being extremely based. Literally once-in-a-decade genius-tier. He made me interested in Polish culture. Recommend some Polish literature?

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I'm going to say the n-word.

Joseph Conrad is the Shakespeare of novelists, and the extent of his achievement will recognized within the next half century, as the political pendulum swings back towards a centre-point.

>98% of each of his books are enclosed in quotes
Why not just write in the first person?

How was the best (and most prolific) English prose artist since Shakespeare born in Poland and an ESL student?

>Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive -- not to say drunk. Was looking after the upkeep of the road, he declared. Can't say I saw any road or any upkeep, unless the body of a middle-aged negro, with a bullet-hole in the forehead, upon which I absolutely stumbled three miles farther on, may be considered as a permanent improvement.

I can't see how this is easily even comprehensible to a man who doesn't have a masterful understanding of the language

>picks up English ironically in his twenties
>becomes one of the best to ever write in it
Why is this allowed?

Convince me that this man is anything other than an unintentional parody of Melville.

How did he achieve such dense, vivid prose?
Every single page has so many things going on.