Joseph Conrad was an English writer of Polish origin and though he wrote his works in English he always considered himself a Pole. His stories often have nautical setting which is a typical feature of adventure stories. A symbolic meaning can be found in this idea: the author traces the fates of people in the indifferent and strange world. Even though his writing style may possess some elements of romanticism he is cosidered as a representetive of modernism. His works have been made into a number of films.
'The Point Of Honor' is a historical novel by Joseph Conrad the tells us about two hussar officers D'Hubert and Feraud. The story is set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, the time when men prefered to solve their problems in a straightford and rough way. A quarell over some insignificant thing grows into a life-time standing, and one of the officers chases the other one in order to get satisfaction for the period of fifteen years