JOSEPH CONRAD VS. MARSHAL PILSUDSKI (O Conradzie i Pilsudskim)

• Authors: Zabierowski Stefan
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to present the parallels between two well-known figures, the men who were born on the borderlands of nineteenth-century Poland. One of them was an eminent Polish politician, Józef Pilsudski, and the other, a distinguished English writer - Joseph Conrad. Both of them had several things in common, for example: they had been born into landed-gentry families (the so-called 'szlachta'); they were raised in a patriotic atmosphere within the shadow cast by national tragedy of the 1863 Uprising; they assimilated the cult of Polish romantic literature. However, later, their lives differed. Conrad did not believe in a reconstruction of independent Poland. Pilsudski, on the other hand, was the one who substantiated the restoration of the Polish state. Having achieved that, he gained the writer's respect - whereas the politician became a great admirer of the author of Lord Jim.

Keywords

EN

CONRAD JOSEPH; LITERATURE AND POLITICS; PILSUDSKI JÓZEF; POLISH HISTORY (19-20TH C.)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 3(117)
• Pages: 33-46
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zabierowski Stefan

• Stefan Zabierowski, Uniwersytet Slaski w Katowicach, Instytut Nauk o Kulturze, pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 1, 40-032 Katowice, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067031