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Almayer's Folly is about a poor businessman who dreams of finding a hidden gold mine and becoming very wealthy. He is a white European, married to a native Malayan; they have one daughter named Nina. They live in the village of Sambir, based on Tanjung Redeb in the Berau Regency of the East Kalimantan province, Indonesia.
Almayer’s Folly , Joseph Conrad’s first novel, is a tale of personal tragedy as well as a broader meditation on the evils of colonialism. Set in the lush jungle of Borneo in the late 1800s, it tells of the Dutch merchant Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
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- Joseph Conrad
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Almayer's Folly (French: La Folie Almayer) is a 2011 drama film directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Stanislas Merhar, Aurora Marion and Marc Barbé. It is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad 's 1895 debut novel Almayer's Folly , and tells the story of a Dutchman searching for pirate treasure in Malaysia. [1]
Aug 10, 2012 · Almayer's Folly: Directed by Chantal Akerman. With Stanislas Merhar, Marc Barbé, Aurora Marion, Zac Andianas. The tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
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- Drama
- Chantal Akerman
- 2012-08-10
Nov 1, 1996 · Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River Credits: Transcribed from the 1915 T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. edition by David Price Language: English: LoC Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature: Subject: Dutch -- Borneo -- Fiction Subject: Didactic fiction Subject: Imperialism -- Fiction Subject: Psychological fiction Subject: Trading ...
- Joseph Conrad
- English
- 1895
- Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
Almayer’s Folly was Conrad’s first novel, written while he was still travelling to the Far East. Almayer, based on the trader Olmeijer whom Conrad met in Berau, is (unlike the real Olmeijer) a ruined man. Like Olmeijer, Almayer married a Eurasian woman and has a daughter by her, Nina. Tom Lingard, who appears in this and other Conrad novels ...
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Nov 24, 2016 · Almayer's Folly: Directed by U-Wei Haji Saari. With Peter O'Brien, Sofia Jane, Khalid Salleh, Diana Danielle. Based on Joseph Conrad's 1895 novel Almayer's Folly, this epic film tells the story of Kaspar Almayer, an English trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century.
