Heart of DarknessDover Publications, 1990 M07 1 - 80 páginas Although Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopaedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ivory trader who exercises an almost godlike sway over the inhabitants of the region. Both repelled and fascinated by the man, Marlow is brought face to face with the corruption and despair that Conrad saw at the heart of human existence. |
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... forest , the creek , the mud , the river- seemed to beckon with a dishonoring flourish before the sunlit face of the land a treacherous appeal to the lurking death , to the hidden evil , to the profound darkness of its heart . It was so ...
... forest had slipped downhill while we talked , had gone far beyond the ruined hovel , beyond the symbolic row of stakes . All this was in the gloom , while we down there were yet in the sunshine , and the stretch of the river abreast of ...
... forest that had ejected these beings so suddenly had drawn them in again as the breath is drawn in a long aspira- tion . " Some of the pilgrims behind the stretcher carried his arms - two shotguns , a heavy rifle , and a light revolver ...