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Conrad's "undying hope" of the Polish nation: Western ideal and Eastern reality.(Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
From: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Date: 20060601
Author:Kil, Hye Ryoung
The idealistic protagonists in Conrad's novels represent the individualistic and democratic "Western" tradition of Poland before her destruction by "Eastern" autocracy. The reconciliation between the republican tradition, inherited by the Polish revolutionaries in the nineteenth century, and the autocratic reality of Russian Poland suggests the rebirth of the Polish nation.
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The works of Joseph Conrad, the Polish-British author, reveal the cultural and political heritage of his homeland, which was part of imperial Russia. The author's Polish traits may be ...
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