Joseph Conrad – A Time-Lord

• Authors: Joanna Skolik

Title variants

PL

Joseph Conrad – władca czasu

Abstracts

PL

Conrad w sposób nowatorski wykorzystuje kategorię czasu w swych utworach. Stosując takie narzędzia jak opóźnione dekodowanie, retrospekcje, przesunięcia czasowe, a także wprowadzając swoich bohaterów w pętlę czasową lub pozbawioną czasu przestrzeń, pisarz wyprzedzał swoją epokę. W jego dziełach czas przeczy prawom fizyki, pozwalając mu tworzyć idiosynkratyczną czasoprzestrzeń.

EN

Conrad’s fiction manages the temporal dimension in highly innovative ways. Conrad was ahead of his time in employing such devices as delayed decoding, flashbacks, time-shifts, as well as by enveloping his characters in temporal loops or a timeless space. In his works, time defies the laws of physics, allowing him to create an idiosyncratic space-time continuum.

Keywords

PL

życie Conrada; utwory Conrada; manipulacja czasem; percepcja czasu; trauma

EN

Conrad’s life; Conrad’s letters; time manipulation; time perception; trauma

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Perspektywy Kultury
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 273-288

Dates

published

2024

Contributors

author

Joanna Skolik

• Uniwersytet Opolski

• https://orcid.org/0000000192187535

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.35765/pk.2024.4502.20

Biblioteka Nauki

37553563