A Personal Record

A Personal Record

"A Personal Record" is an autobiographical work (or "fragment of biography") by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912.

It has also been published under the titles "A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences" and "Some Reminiscences".

Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life. It tells about his schooling in Russian Poland, his sailing in Marseille, the influence of his Uncle Tadeusz, and the writing of "Almayer's Folly".

On the whole it provides a fascinating glimpse of how Conrad wished to be seen by his British public, as well as being an atmospheric work of art (though a few have found it ponderous and long).

The "Familiar Preface" Conrad wrote for it includes these often quoted lines:

"Those who read me know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills. It rests notably, among others, on the idea of Fidelity."

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