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"Sailing towards Poland" with Joseph Conrad (Hardcover, New edition)
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"Sailing towards Poland" with Joseph Conrad (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: American University Studies, 42
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Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and
culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the
accepted meanings of the texts. In an interview that was published
in Kuryer Polski (in the then Polish city of Ostrawa, now in the
Czech Republic) on 26 August 1915, Conrad himself declared about
the nineteenth-century Polish poets: "Krasinski, Mickiewicz and
Slowacki. Their words are everything for me. I was raised and
formed by them." Yet, the Polish sources deeply rooted in Conrad's
works have been scantily acknowledged and hardly explored, although
notable intertextual theorists have argued that the ultimate
understanding of the text comes from the intertext(s). The first
part of this book analyzes Conrad's first novel, Almayer's Folly,
and four of his greatest works: Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret
Agent and Under Western Eyes. Unearthing the cache of Polish
references in these works enhances our intellectual and aesthetic
appreciation of Conrad as an artist par excellence. The signs
recall literary and artistic works as well as aspects of social
behavior, as Kristeva and Riffaterre explain. Bloom provides
additional insight regarding the writer's struggle to supersede his
predecessors. The second part of the book looks at two
autobiographical works: A Personal Record and "A Familiar Preface."
With poetic eloquence, Conrad proclaims his victory over his tragic
past in A Personal Record. A tone of gaiety rises stubbornly in the
midst of complete awareness of sorrow. The tone of "A Familiar
Preface" is also unmistakably triumphant. More than joyous, the
merriment in these self-portraits celebrates many worldly
achievements, but ultimately one great triumph. In his writings the
English author has transcended bitter adversities by transfiguring
dreadful facts into the perfection and permanence of art.
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