Reclaiming Conrad in Poland : reviews of: Joseph Conrad a Polska (…) and Polskość i europejskość w Josepha Conrada wizjach historii, polityki i etyki (…)

Abstract

Known worldwide and published since 1992, Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives series―edited by Wiesław Krajka―has become a valuable and incisive contribution to Conrad scholarship. The series has both raised novel issues and reexamined the old ones. It has published selected papers from the prestigious international Conrad conferences organized by Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and Kazimierz Dolny every fi ve years. The aim of the series has not only been to emphasise the Polish and East-Central European contexts for the works of Joseph Conrad, but also to present those in an international perspective (Krajka, I: 11). The thematic variety of the series can only be matched by its critical diversity: the essays― grounded in diverse intellectual traditions and cultural backgrounds―represent various methodologies and take diff erent approaches to Conrad’s life and oeuvre as well as to the reception and comparative criticism of his works. As yet, articles and studies on Conrad published in Polish are rather hard to come by. Hence the importance of the new series titled Joseph Conrad a Polska, Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia i świat [Joseph Conrad and Poland, Central and Eastern Europe and the world]―initiated by Wiesław Krajka and based on the texts previously published in English in the twenty two volumes of the mother-series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives―can hardly be overestimated [...]. Recenzje książek: Conrad a Polska / red. nauk. Wiesław Krajka ; [Zakład Studiów Conradoznawczych Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej]. - Lublin : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2011. - 367 s. : il. ; 23 cm. - (Joseph Conrad a Polska, Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia i Świat ; t. 1); Polskość i europejskość w Josepha Conrada wizjach historii, polityki i etyki / red. nauk. Wiesław Krajka. - Lublin : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, 2013. - 324 s. : il. ; 23 cm. - (Joseph Conrad a Polska, Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia i Świat ; t. 2)