Joseph Conrad
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| Title | : | Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary |
| Author | : | Joseph Conrad |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 162 pages |
| Published | : | August 10th 1999 by Modern Library (first published 1899) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Cultural. Africa. Literature |
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Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 037575377X here.With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.
Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.
Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life."
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Ratings: 3.62 From 663 Users | 58 ReviewsColumn About Books Heart of Darkness: and Selections from The Congo Diary
It is been a long time since I read this book. (2007)I need to read it again.It is now part of my little library of books of narratives about inner struggles, conflicts, tormented souls of the main characters.(The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte,The Portrait by Iain Pears and Embers by Sándor Márai to name a few)This is definitely a book that a person should read. Its all about your own inferences as to what the main point of the book was. For me it was about how the wild can change a person. Its basically about a guy named Marlow and he tells the story of a guy named Kurtz. Kurtz is this remarkable person and everyone seems to know about him and what type of person he is. It amazes me how much people admired this guy.I really enjoyed the way that the jungle was portrayed. It was like its own character.
"Conrad is a bad writer." - Ernest HemingwayI have to agree with Hemingway.All I got out of reading this book was a headache.
"LHorreur by Anthony Petrie, based on 'Heart Of Darkness' by Joseph ConradThe conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.Ain't that the truth, and sadly. the history of much of mankind...the haves become the have-nots, and we chalk it up to progress. I hesitated to give five stars, as I did not love this book. It was as sad and depressing as
The slowest book on the face of the Earth, and the main story clocks in at roughly 85 pages. Context matters for this: readers of the 1800s were likely more accustomed to the dragging pace of such literature. Meanwhile, I'm conditioned into something more eye-catching. Sure, Heart of Darkness makes you think hard on a variety of topics but you'll resort to a free YouTube audiobook to get you through the grueling pace of some of the least compelling characters in literature history. I barely
"he had made that last stride, he had stepped over the edge, while i had been permitted to draw back my hesitating foot. and perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all the truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible" (88).heart of darkness is a meditation on the origin of the european colonial identity, and conrad argues that morality in its fundamental form is nonexistent.
I read this book as a result of having read King Leopold's Ghost, so my interest was not so much literary as historical. Because of that, I read things out of order - skipped all the commentary at the beginning, went straight to the story, then read excerpts from Conrad's diary, and then returned to the start of the text and read what critics had to say.I found the story plodding, to be honest - the style of a long and rambling narration by one character just didn't hook me, and I frequently
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