The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Robert Hampson was for many years Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway and Research Fellow at the University of London Institute for English Studies. Chair of the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) and currently co-editor of the journal The Conradian, he has edited numerous works by Conrad, Kipling and Rider Haggard for the Penguin Classics series. His previous publications on Conrad includes Conrad's Secrets (2012) and Joseph Conrad: A Critical Life (2020). Véronique Pauly is Senior Lecturer at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines/University of Paris-Saclay, France a former Director of the Institut d’études culturelles et internationelles, and a researcher at the Centre d’Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines. She is President of the French Conradian Society and has published on Joseph Conrad and contemporary British writers.

Series Editor’s Preface: Elinor Shaffer

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

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Timeline of the European Reception of Joseph Conrad

Introduction: Joseph Conrad’s Life and Afterlife in Mainland Europe
Robert Hampson

Part 1: The reception of Conrad in Poland (1896-2018)

Chapter 1: The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Poland (1896-2018)
Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech

Chapter 2: The Polish Translation and Reception of Lord Jim.
Ewa Kujawski-Lis
Chapter 3: Polonizing Siberia’s Heart of Darkness: Conrad Written Back in Jacek Dukaj’s Ice
Daniel Schümann

Part 2: The Reception of Joseph Conrad in France, Germany and Italy

Chapter 4: Conrad’s Early Reception in the Context of the French Roman D’Aventures.
Mark Fitzpatrick

Chapter 5: The French Reception of Joseph Conrad from the 1930s to the Present Day
Véronique Pauly
Chapter 6: Publishing under Pressure: Conrad’s Reception in Germany 1900 -1945 –and After
Anthony Fothergill

Chapter 7: German Democratic Republic: Conrad’s reception under socialist eyes
Frank Förster

Chapter 8: Conrad Translations in Austria and Switzerland
Frank Förster

Chapter 9: The Italian Translations of Conrad
Mario Curreli

Chapter 10: ‘The Battle for Conrad’ inside and outside Italian academia in the years 1924-1960
Richard Ambrosini

Chapter 11: Conrad’s Critical Reception in Italy 1924-2021
Fausto Ciompi

Part 3. Conrad’s reception in Spain and Latin America

Chapter 12: The Reception of Conrad in Spain
Daniel Zurbano García

Chapter 13: From Unrest to Anthropology: (well nigh) a Century of Conrad in Catalonia
Jacqueline Hurtley

Chapter 14: The Spanish and Catalan Reception of Conrad’s Poetics: A History in Three Vignettes
Marta Puxan-Oliva

Chapter 15: The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Latin America
Maria Jesús Lorenzo-Modia

Chapter 16: An Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa
Maria Jesús Lorenzo-Modia

Chapter 17: Borges and Conrad
Evelyn Fishburn

Part 4: Conrad’s Reception in other European Countries

Chapter 18: Conrad’s Artistic Returns: Perspectives on a Bulgarian Debut in Staging ‘Heart of Darkness’
Petya Ivanova, Margreta Grigorova

Chapter 19: Within the Tides: the Czech Reception of Joseph Conrad
Zdenek Beran

Chapter 20: Joseph Conrad’s Translations and Reception in Denmark
Ebbe Klitgård

Chapter 21: Conrad in Greece: Translation, Performance, Politics
Nikolaos Panagopoulos

Chapter 22: The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Hungary
Balàsz. Csizmadia

Chapter 23: Conrad’s Reception in Ireland.
Richard Niland

Chapter 24: The ‘Bard of Particular Elements’: Conrad’s Reception in Russia
Ludmilla Voitkova

Chapter 25: A Familial Soul in Slovenia and Former Yugoslavia
Majda Savle

Chapter 26: The Swedish Use of Conrad
Claes Lindskog

Chapter 27: Conrad’s Academic Reception in Sweden
Johan Warodell

Chapter 28: ‘One of Us’: Conrad’s Reception in Ukraine
Ludmilla Voitkowa

Chapter 29: The Early Ukrainian Critical reception of Joseph Conrad
Dmytro Kozak