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Tytuł: | Joseph Conrad's Polish soul |
Autor: | Adamowicz-Pośpiech, Agnieszka |
Słowa kluczowe: | Joseph Conrad; polish literature; heritage; culture |
Data wydania: | 2018 |
Źródło: | "Joseph Conrad Today" Vol. 43, no. 2 (2018), s. 5-7 |
Abstrakt: | Joseph Conrad’s Polish Soul
G.W. Stephen Brodsky
Edited and with an Introduction by G. Gasyna
M. Curie-Sklodowska UP / Columbia UP, 2016
416 pp. $60.00
Nihil novi nisi commune consensus (Nic o nas
bez nas; Nothing of us without us) one may say about
yet another book on the Polish background of Conrad,
but this old Polish dictum does not apply to Brodsky’s
monograph because he seems to be one of us, Poles . . .
But first things first.
The volume opens with a personal introduction
by George Gasyna who appreciates Brodsky’s analyses
of Conrad’s relationship with Poland because his “insider/
outsider tension reverberates” with Gasyna’s own position
on Poland. “In many ways”—Gasyna clarifies
—“I identify with Conrad’s decision (and Brodsky’s exposition
of its consequences) to turn away from some
more pathological manifestations of defensive Polishness,
as he went on to forge a multidirectional composite
cultural self’ (9). Gasyna sketches a short biography
of Brodsky whose ancestors similarly to Conrad
stemmed from Polish borderlands (for Brodsky it was
the village Brody, for Conrad, a half day’s drive from it,
Berdichev) |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/16337 |
ISSN: | 0162-413X |
Pojawia się w kolekcji: | Artykuły (W.Hum.)
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