Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture

Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech is Professor of English Literature at the University of Silesia, Poland, and Vice-President of the Polish Joseph Conrad Society. She published on Conrad, T.S. Eliot, G.B. Shaw, H.Pinter, J. Verma. Her recent monograph is entitled Adaptations of J.Conrad’s Life and Works in Contemporary Culture. Nathalie Martinière is a full professor at the Department of English, University of Limoges where she teaches literature. She is the author of Figures du Double: du personage au texte and has more recently co-edited Rewriting in the 20th-21st Centuries: Aesthetic Choice or Political Act?. She is the editor of L’Epoque Conradienne. Josiane Paccaud-Huguet was Emeritus Professor of Modernist literature at Université Lumière-Lyon 2. She was also a psychoanalyst. She published on Conrad and K. Mansfield, V. Woolf and M. Lowry. She published a monograph on Conrad (with C. Maisonnat) and a critical edition of Au Cœur des Ténèbres. Véronique Pauly is senior lecturer at the University of Versailles-St-Quentin-en-Yvelines-Paris-Saclay where she teaches literature. She has published on Joseph Conrad, edited Nostromo for the 2007 Penguin Black Classics edition and, more recently, co-edtited The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe.

List of Figures


Abbreviations


Notes on Contributors


Introduction


Part 1

What Is Conrad the Name Of?

1 Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary French Culture

  Josiane Paccaud-Huguet



2 The Presence of Conrad in Eduardo Berti’s Un Padre Extranjero

  Nathalie Martinière



Part 2

Showing: Graphic and Filmic Metamorphoses

3 Contexts, Genres, and Transformations Conradesque Novels by Robert Silverberg and Henri Bosco

  Laurence Davies



4 From Adaptation to Autonomy Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in French and English Graphic Novels

  Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pośpiech



5 From Heart of Darkness to Apocalypse Oz The Horror Shifted

  Ewa Kujawska-Lis



6 Conrad, Fudakowski Secret Sharer(s)

  Joanna Skolik



7 The Secret Agent in Antonioni’s Writings

  Michel Arouimi



Part 3

Telling: Literary Affiliations and Appropriations

8 Conrad and Transcultural Belonging

  Robert Hampson



9 The Advanced Connection of Beliefs and Style Joseph Conrad in the Eyes of Olga Tokarczuk

  Karol Samsel



10 The Loneliness of a Migrant The Intercultural Experience in Joseph Conrad and Stanisław Lem

  Daniel Vogel



11 Affiliations in Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes and J. M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg

  Véronique Pauly



Index of Non-fictional Names


Index of Conrad’s Works


Index of Subjects