Conrad, flore aetatis Imperii Britannici laborans, nationales Poloniae experientias atque personales experientias suas in classibus mercatoriis Francica et Britannica effodit, ut fabulas brevesmythistoriasque excogitaret quae mundum ab Europa regnatum monstrant cum profunda humanae animae explorarent contra colonialismum et imperialismum. Sua opera fictionis et non fictionis, mox et bene a litterariis cognoscentis aestimata, significationem paene fatidicam adepta sunt, a luce posteriorum nationalium et internationalium saeculorumvicensimi et vicensimi unius calamitatum inluminata.[8]
In epistola14 Februarii1901 ad Józef Korzeniowski, bibliothecarium in Universitas JagiellonianaCrakoviae, scripta, Conrad scripsit: "Late agnoscitur me esse Polum Iosephumque Konrad sunt mea nomina [data], quorum illud a me adhibetur ut cognomen ne ora aliena meum cognomen verum distorquant—distortio quam tolerare non possum. Mihi non videtur me civitati meae infidelem fuisse quia se Anglicis monstravi nobilem ex Ucraina ortum nautam esse potest tam bonum quam ei, et eis res in eorum lingua dicere potest." Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, pp. 311–312.
Rudyard Kipling credidit "with a pen in his hand he was first amongst us" sed fuit in eius cogitatione nihil Anglicum: "When I am reading him, I always have the impression that I am reading an excellent translation of a foreign author." Locus citatus in Jeffrey Meyers, Joseph Conrad: A Biography, p. 209. Vide Zdzisław Najder opinionem similem: "He was . . . an English writer who grew up in other linguistic and cultural environments. His work can be seen as located in the borderland of auto-translation." Zdzisław Najder, Joseph Conrad: A Life, 2007, p. IX.
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