Dzieje polskiej recepcji „Amy Foster” Josepha Conrada
A History of the Polish Reception of Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster”

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to trace the mechanisms that characterise the Polish reception of Joseph Conrad’s “Amy Foster” from the moment of publishing its first translation in the year 1914 until the beginning of the 21st century. The reception in question, supplemented by the mechanisms of domestication of the story in the Polish literary space, for a long time imposed a close relation of the piece with its author’s biography, inter alia, the liaisons with Conrad’s first homeland. Only in the last years, under the influence of Western examinations, we have observed broadening of interpretive frames that include new research contexts, namely philosophical, anthropological, and social one. The story’s current potential gradually exceeds the senses linked to historical-ethnographic realia for universalisation of the problems of invincible interpersonal foreignness.

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