“The biography of Joseph Conrad is very easy to remember. At seventeen he became a sailor. At twenty-seven - captain. At thirty-seven - first novel. If not for one “but”. The novel Ohlmeyer's Folly was written in English. And Joseph Theodor Konrad Kozhenowski was a Pole, educated in Lviv and Krakow, spent his first four years at sea on French ships and began learning English at the age of twenty. This did not stop him from becoming a classic of English literature. In the article about him, meticulous Wikipedians tried to include a list of all English authors who acknowledged Conrad's influence on their own texts. Using this list you can study English and American modernism: an unsurpassed stylist, the founder of psychologism in English prose...”