Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski is the name of a young man who did not know the sea. He was born on December 3, 1857 in Berdyczew, Podolia, a place then occupied by the Russians, today belonging to Ukraine. His closest figure to literature was that of his father, who in addition to being at the service of the Polish nationalist movement, was a writer and translator. Orphaned at the age of twelve, he lived with his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski. A short time later he decided to venture to sea, first joining the French merchant navy in Marseille and, later, the British merchant navy, an event that would give him his first contact with the English language. The voyages and adventures of this sailor made him the character we know today as Joseph Conrad who, having acquired British nationality (1886), appropriated English as his preferred language to give life to countless stories. He was a writer made to measure for the sea, aware of its hidden treasures, its serenity and its storms. His personality was an allusion to the waters themselves, for he could find himself telling a story with great enthusiasm and passing, in a few minutes, into the coldest silence, leaving his listeners bewildered. When he died, on August 3, 1924, at the age of sixty-six, he left a work that today is one of the richest and most diverse in modern literature. The mature experience with which Conrad captures "The Shadow Line" determines, without a doubt, that daring and innocence are interwoven with despair and hope in an unparalleled way, configuring psychologically complex, extremely real characters, as well as raw and stark atmospheres. Overcoming and transformation are issues that he explored during his life, first in the flesh, and then in ink. Blessed are those who have the joy of being shipwrecked or drifting through life, and of living to tell the story of the vicissitudes that could well form, one day, an incomparable story, with sincerity and transparency in each line, capable of transmitting sensations and giving life, even to the shadows, as happens in this story.