Conrad Andrzeja Buszy
Andrzej Busza’s Conrad

Author(s): Joanna Skolik
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Andrzej Busza; Joseph Conrad; Conradian studies; literary tradition; heritage;
Summary/Abstract: The article presents Professor Andrzej Busza, a Conradian researcher, who is connected with the subject of his research, Joseph Conrad, by common experiences of alienation and growing into a different culture, life on the border of different worlds. Busza presents Conrad’s Polish heritage and its later influence on the writer’s work. Busza writes about Conrad’s deep pessimism, which links the writer with contemporary Poles, as well as about Conrad’s popularity during the war and occupation, when “fidelity becomes the greatest of virtues, and betrayal – the greatest crime”. Busza also speaks of Conrad’s attitude to Flaubert and Dostoyevsky, which, being full of paradoxes and contradictions, reflects his complex relations with the East and West, as well as with Polish cultural and historical duality. Busza’ Conrad is a committed writer, but at the same time a writer rooted in the tradition of European literature and culture.

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