%0 Journal Article
%T Conrad and Warsaw
%A Zabierowski, Stefan
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.16.008.5473
%N Volume 13, Issue 2
%P 125-137
%K Joseph Conrad, Warsaw, history of Poland under Partitions
%@ 2083-7658
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/conrad-i-warszawa
%X The aim of the article is to present the relation of the English writer of Polish origin Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski to Warsaw. Poland’s capital played a special role in Conrad’s childhood. The boy accompanied his parents, who organized conspiracy, before the outbreak of the 1863 Rising, and he had to witness his father’s imprisonment and trial, and later, together with his parents, go into exile to Vologda. That stay in Warsaw was a traumatic experience for the boy and later it was reflected in Conrad’s writing. The paper also describes two other stays in Warsaw (in 1890 and 1893), when Conrad was already a citizen of Britain, Navy captain and beginning writer. The whole is concluded by presenting Warsaw as the main centre of editing and researching Conrad’s writing.