Serie : Époque conradienne (L'). Vol 41
Paru le 24/04/2019 | Broché 175 pages
Public motivé
As someone born in Poland, brought up as a Francophile, writing in English, it seems that « the whole of Europe contributed to the making of » Mr Conrad, giving him a transnational dimension: his works mirror this cultural and linguistic diversity and this is also why they have constantly been re-interpreted according to changing critical trends and ideological perspectives. In the process, however, the literary and aesthetic dimension of his novels has often been forgotten in favour of the debate of ideas.
His colonial fictions in particular have in the past decades become a contentious site of debate, as a great number of critics have chosen them as case studies for the application of postcolonial theory. It is such an approach that motivated the international conference in Limoges (France) held on 21-22 September, 2017 thanks to Ehic (Espaces Humains et Interactions Culturelles, EA 1087), Société Conradienne Française, the university of Limoges and the Region Nouvelle Aquitaine.
Contributors to this volume and volume 42 of L'Epoque Conradienne have considered Conrad and his works from a transnational perspective in order to explore how we read them both as aesthetic and ethical artefacts nowadays, and why we find the questions they broach so often so close to us.
