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Merging the best aspects of the novel and the biography, this book reveals with utmost honesty details from Joseph Conrads life that only his wife Jessie was privy to. Readers will thus get to know the writer through his melancholic humor, his private reactions as a husband and literary genius, his temperament, his powerful obsession with the sea, his weaknesses, and his work methods. Jessie also describes many of the people with whom the family interacted, including friends and enemies in the literary world.

Combinando las mejores virtudes de la novela y la biografía, este libro revela con absoluta franqueza detalles de la vida de Joseph Conrad que tan sólo su esposa Jessie conocía. El lector llegará a conocer de este modo al escritor mediante su humor melancólico, sus reacciones en privado como marido y genio literario, su temperamento, su poderosa obsesión por el mar, sus debilidades y sus métodos de trabajo. Jessie además describe a muchas de las personas con quienes la familia del autor tuvo trato, incluyendo los amigos y enemigos pertenecientes al mundo literario.

Jessie Conrad was the wife of famous author Joseph Conrad. Gabriela Bustelo is a novelist and translator of English literature, essays, and films. She has published three novels, frequently contributes to Spanish and Latin American media, and has translated works by Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Rudyard Kipling.