Między „Ja”, „Innym” i sobą samym. Podwojone osobowości w ’Twixt Land and Sea Josepha Conrada
Between “I”, “Other” and Self: Double Personalities in ’Twixt Land and Sea by Joseph Conrad

Author(s): Andrzej Juszczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: doubleness; double; dialectic; identity; phantasm; Conard Joseph; “The Secret Sharer”; “A Smile of Fortune”; “Freya of the Seven Isles”
Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to read a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad – entitled’Twixt Land and Sea – not as three separate texts, but as a kind of whole, in whichthe dominant strategy turns out to be the doubling of the text on many planes. Thecharacters in each story, as well as in the whole set, are sometimes juxtaposed as surprisingpairs. Relationship between these characters seems to be specially complicated:they are seemingly dichotomous, but in fact this opposite becomes the starting pointfor a more complicated relationship. All this seems to serve the specific dialectics ofthe subject, which results in the suspension of our judgment of reality.

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