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,...
Joseph Conrad ingeniously buried images from Polish literature and culture into his works. Once recognized, these references alter the accepted mea...
