Marubutan Yamma a Bangkok: Joseph Conrad
Wani jirgin ruwa dan kasar Poland Teodor Korzeniowski ya fara ziyartar Bangkok ne a watan Janairun 1888 lokacin da yake jami'in sojan ruwa na Burtaniya. Ya kasance daga Seaman's Lodge aika zuwa babban birnin kasar Siamese a Singapore domin daukar kwamandan rundunar Otago, wani tsatsa mai tsatsa wanda kyaftin dinsa ya mutu kwatsam kuma akasarin ma'aikatan jirgin na kwance a asibiti sakamakon kamuwa da zazzabin cizon sauro.
Bayan tafiyar kwana hudu ya wuce Bar, babban yashi a bakin Chao Phraya: 'Wata rana da sassafe, muka haye mashaya, kuma rana tana fitowa da kyau a kan filayen da ba a iya ƙididdige su ba, muka ɗaga ƙwanƙwasa marasa adadi, muka wuce ƙarƙashin inuwar babban gilt pagoda, muka isa bayan gari.' Ya mika kansa ga karamin jakadan Burtaniya kamar yadda ya dace a wancan zamani, tare da mika masa wannan aminci a tashar jirginsa:
"Mutumin da na yi aure shi ne Mr. Conrad Korzeniovsky. Yana da kyakkyawan hali daga jiragen ruwa da yawa da ya tashi daga wannan tashar jiragen ruwa. Na amince da shi cewa albashinsa a fam 14 a kowane wata don ƙidaya daga ranar da ya isa Bangkok, jirgi don samar masa da abinci da duk abubuwan da suka dace…'
Har sai da ya sami ma'aikaci mai dacewa da matukin jirgi, galibi ya wuce lokacin a cikin Ƙungiyar Lissafin Kuɗi na Oriental Hotel, otal ɗaya tilo mai daɗi da za a iya samu a babban birnin Siamese a wancan zamanin, wanda ya fara buɗe ƙofofinsa a shekara ta 1876. Duk da haka bai zauna ba kuma bai ci abinci a wurin ba saboda albashinsa ya dan yi kadan don haka. Kuma wannan abu ne mai kyau, domin zamansa ba zai dawwama ba - kamar yadda ya yi tunani tun farko - kwanaki, amma makonni.
An tilasta wa Korzeniowski yin bankwana da rayuwa a kan tekun da ke fama da cutar sankara, bayan wasu shekaru kuma ya fara ƙarƙashinsa. sunan launi Joseph Conrad ya rubuta. Ba a dau lokaci mai tsawo ba ya yi suna kamar yadda marubucin fina-finai ke so Ubangiji Jim en Zuciyar Duhu. Abubuwan da ya faru a Afirka da Asiya sun zama tushen abin sha'awa ga tafiye-tafiye a cici sau da yawa ya kasance misalan tafiya zuwa cikin zuciyar ɗan adam. ƙwararriyar salon labarinsa da ƙwararrun jarumai na gaba da gaba suna yin tasiri ga dukan tsararrun marubutan harshen Ingilishi.
Conrad ya yi tafiya zuwa kudu maso gabashin Asiya har sau uku kuma wannan abin da ya faru ya bar shi sosai. Ba daidai ba ne, wasu malamai sun bayyana shi da cewa'marubucin da ya sanar da kudu maso gabashin Asiya ga duniya'. Falk, Mai raba sirri en Shadowline uku ne daga cikin ayyukan Conrad waɗanda Bangkok suka ƙarfafa su. Ya bayyana a cikin Shadowline yadda ya zaɓi babban mashigar ruwa daga Chao Phraya. Ba za a manta da bayaninsa game da birnin, yana yin burodi a ƙarƙashin Copper Ploert, misali mai kyau na ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararrun ƙwararrun lardunan da ta kasance alamarsa:
'A can ne, ya bazu sosai a duka bankunan biyu, babban birnin Gabas wanda har yanzu bai sha wahala ba. Anan da can daga nesa, sama da cunkoson jama'a na ƙananan ƙofofin rufin ƙasa mai launin ruwan kasa, manyan ɗimbin tulin katafaren gini, manyan fadojin sarki, temples, kyawawa da rugujewa a ƙarƙashin hasken rana a tsaye'…
Kyakkyawan labari na tarihi game da Conrad. An rubuta da kyau sosai, Lung Jan,
kuna da salon rubutu mai jan hankali.
Joseph Conrad, ɗaya daga cikin marubutan ƙaunataccena, wanda ya burge ni a lokacin ina ɗan shekara ashirin.
Daga nan ya shuka iri a cikina don wata rana ya ziyarci Bangkok mai ban mamaki. Ya faru sau da yawa riga.
Yawancin aikinsa an fassara shi zuwa Yaren mutanen Holland, kwanan nan ko duba kantin sayar da littattafai na gargajiya…
Kullum ina zaune da rana ko maraice tare da Mai Tai akan kyakkyawan filin filin 'Gashi'. Har yanzu 'yan ƙafa sanye da kayan mulkin mallaka suna buɗe taksi ko limousine ɗinku, wani gogewa a kanta tun dazu…
Aminci da kyakkyawan ra'ayi na Chao Phraya. Da yamma jiragen ruwa masu haske.
Falo kuma yana da daraja. Akwai kuma dakin shayi mai dauke da hoton hoton, cike da hotunan shahararrun marubuta da ba a san su ba.
Bayan Conrad kuma Somerset Maugham, John Lecarre, James Michener, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Norman Mailer, Paul Theroux. Kuma ƙarshe amma ba kalla Barbara Cartland ba.
Oh, eh, zaku iya kwana a can. Daga kadan kamar € 800 don ɗaki mai sauƙi zuwa jimlar karimci na € 9 na dare ɗaya. Ko ya haɗa da kyakkyawan karin kumallo don Yuro 000 ko a'a.
Amma a ina kuka kasance kuma menene ba ku samu ba!
Kyakkyawan yanki, kuma na yarda gaba ɗaya! Na kuma karanta "Zuciyar Duhu" tun ina matashi kuma nan da nan na ƙaunace ta, shi ma ya kasance abin sha'awa ga Coppola's hallucinatory anti-ya fim Apocalypse Yanzu ..
A Phuket na sayi bugu na aljihu (Signet Classics) a Littattafan Asiya tare da litattafai guda biyu na Conrad: “Mai raba sirri” (wanda aka saita a teku kusa da Bangkok, ban sani ba tukuna) da “Zuciyar Duhu” (bisa ga blurb). " sharhi mai ban tsoro game da lalatar ɗan adam ", kuma shi ne). A yanzu ina karanta wannan ƙwararriyar ƙwararru ta ƙarshe a karo na biyu, shawarwarin maras lokaci!
Da zuciya ɗaya na yarda da Alphonse da Oscar, na ɗan lokaci ɗaya daga cikin marubutan da na fi so. Rubutun Joseph Conrad wani lokacin duhu ne amma kuma na waka, amma yana da kyau a ga abin ban dariya duk da cewa labarin duhu ne.
Ɗaya daga cikin labarun a kudu maso gabashin Asiya shine "Freya na tsibirin bakwai".
Kuna iya rarraba shi azaman labarin Jules et Jim (fim François Truffaut); ya fara a kan bayanin ban dariya, wanda ke sa ƙarshen mummunan ƙare ya zama mai raɗaɗi. Labarin wani bangare ne na tarin novella Twixt Land and Sea.