Słowa kluczowe: Cracow, Joseph Conrad, Józef Hieronim Retinger, the Polish Question during WWI, Alfonso XII, Carlists, Don Carlos, La table de Cracovie, Marseilles, The Arrow of Gold, The Mirror of the Sea, the theatrical life of Marseilles, Tremolino, autobiography, cultural anthropology, cultural patterns, gawęda, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Polish translation, Sailors’ Jargon, Typhoon, An Outpost of Progress, colonial literature, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Congo, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, postcolonial literature, postcolonial studies, postcolonialism, racism, Joseph Conrad’s health, Joseph Conrad’s letters, Joseph Conrad’s medical history, new diagnosis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE), A Note on the Polish Problem, A Personal Record, Autocracy and War, colonialism, communism, Congo, Czesław Miłosz, freedom, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, solidarity, Treatise on Morality, Typhoon, Chinua Achebe, comparison, Conrad’s style, cryptoracism, Heart of Darkness, intention, Joseph Conrad, Nietzsche, prejudice, racism, syntax, The Secret Sharer, The Shadow Line, Africa, arguments of intention