《罗曼亲王》(Prince Roman)收在他死后发表的《道听途说故事集》中,实际写作时间约在1911年。在这以前,他曾两次返回波兰探望他的母舅,在波兰的见闻想必勾起了他对祖国的怀念,从1901到1912年间,他曾以波兰流亡者或以波兰的敌手俄国人为主人公写过一些小说,还写了一部回忆童年生活的作品。从这些作品 (包括《罗曼亲王》),我们可以看到,康拉德虽然入了英国籍,心底里毕竟还是热爱着自己灾难深重的祖国的。《罗曼亲王》以1830—31年的波兰起义为背景,描写了青年贵族罗曼亲王参加起义并遭到沙皇残酷迫害的经过,歌颂了波兰人民的爱国主义精神。波兰民族在历史上曾多次受异族的侵略和压迫,十八世纪下半叶,波兰更三次被外国瓜分。异族的统治,特别是沙俄的统治,给波兰人民带来极大的痛苦和灾难。康拉德在《罗曼亲王》中写道:“这个国家所要求的爱,是其它任何国家未曾得到过的。”他在这篇小说中所热情讴歌的,也正是这种铁蹄下的爱国热忱和反抗精神。康拉德笔下的罗曼亲王,既不是这次起义的发动者或领导人,也不是当时爱国秘密团体的成员,而是一个在沙皇宫廷中供职的波兰贵族,曾经终日浸沉在个人幸福和悲痛的小天地里。可是华沙起义的枪声,使这样一个当时并不怎么先进的人物意识到了自己对民族的责任,他从个人哀思中苏醒过来,毫不犹豫地投入了解放自己民族的斗争。他身上表现了为祖国献身的决心、强烈的民族自豪感和宁死不屈的顽强意志。1830—31年的波兰起义,本来就带有保守性质,参加的有不少贵族和地主,也涌现了不少贵族出身的爱国志士,罗曼亲王的形象集中反映了他们的爱国热忱。这种反抗异族侵略、捍卫祖国独立的意志,在某种意义上讲,正是整个波兰民族爱国主义传统的表现。 Prince Roman received the “Hearsay Storybook” published after his death, the actual writing time in about 1911. Prior to this, he had twice returned to Poland to visit his mother-in-law, and his knowledge of Poland presumably evoke his memory of his motherland. From 1901 to 1912, he was the protagonist of the Polish exiles or the enemy of Poland, the Russians Wrote a number of novels, also wrote a memorable childhood works. From these works (including “Prince Romain”), we can see that although Conrad joined the British nationality, he still loves his own disaster-stricken motherland after all. On the background of the Polish uprising of 1830-31, Prince Romain portrayed the Polish patriotism of the Polish people by describing the prince Romain, the young noble, who participated in the uprising and was brutally persecuted by the Tsar. In the history of Poland, the nation was repeatedly subjected to alien invasions and oppression. In the second half of the 18th century, Poland was divided more by foreign countries. The alien domination, especially that of tsarist Russia, brought great pain and disaster to the people of Poland. Conrad wrote in Prince Romain: “The love that this country demands is something that no other nation has ever had before.” "It is such a passionate song in his passionate novel Patriotic enthusiasm and resistance. The Prince of Rohde, which Conrad wrote, was neither the initiator nor the leader of this insurrection, nor the member of the then patriotic secret society at that time. Instead, she was a Polish nobility who served in the court of the Tsar and had immersed her in personal happiness and grief Small world. However, the gunshots of Warsaw uprising made such a not-so-advanced figure aware of his responsibility to the nation. He woke up from his personal grief and did not hesitate to devote himself to the struggle to liberate his own people. He showed his determination to sacrifice his life for the motherland, strong national pride and indomitable will to die. The Polish uprising of 1830-31 was inherently conservative. Many aristocrats and landlords attended the event. Many aristocrats of aristocratic origin also emerged. The image of Prince Romain reflected their patriotic enthusiasm. In a sense, the will to resist alien aggression and safeguard the independence of the motherland is a manifestation of the tradition of Polish national patriotism.