John Steinbeck in 1939 Born

Attempted suicide[edit]

In March 1878, at the end of his Marseilles period, 20-year-old Conrad attempted suicide, by shooting himself in the chest with a revolver.^[81] According to his uncle, who was summoned by a friend, Conrad had fallen into debt. Bobrowski described his subsequent "study" of his nephew in an extensive letter to Stefan Buszczyński, his own ideological opponent and a friend of Conrad's late father Apollo.^{[note 18]} To what extent the suicide attempt had been made in earnest likely will never be known, but it is suggestive of a situational depression.^[82]