Echa romantyzmu polskiego w „Jądrze ciemności”

In the study I attempt to demonstrate how so called Polish-Romantic intertextuality runs in the textual plan of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Without concluding ultimately whether the forming intertextual relation is manifested here through allusions or through reminiscences, I distinguish a bunch of prototypical, Polish-Romantic intertexts which, as I suppose, may remain crucial in the process of contextual reading of Conrad’s masterpiece. On the one hand, these are the works of Adam Mickiewicz – Pan Tadeusz, Forefathers’ Eve Part III, The Books and the Pilgrimage of the Polish Nation, on the other – still functional in the case of Heart of Darkness – Juliusz Słowacki’s Anhelli as well as Polish ‘gaweda szlachecka’ represented by Henryk Rzewuski’s Soplica’s Memoirs. In comparing – I use the close reading method directly, and indirectly – the strategies of the hauntology and palimpsest reading of the literature. I also discuss the conradists’ status quo - polemizing among others with the representation of the Harlequin’s motive present in the most classic world readings of Heart of Darkness: Škvorecký’s, Burgess’s; d’Avanza’s, Canaria’s and others.