Heart of DarknessAlthough 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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And yet it seemed to throw a kind of light. "I had then, as you remember, just
returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas — a regular
dose of the East — six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows
in ...
It's really easier to face bereavement, dishonor, and the perdition of one's soul —
than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And these chaps, too, had no
earthly reason for any kind of scruple. Restraint! I would just as soon have ...
that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one
immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind
of sense. Voices, voices — even the girl herself- — now — " He was silent for a
long ...