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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... silence , an impenetrable forest . The air was warm , thick , heavy , sluggish . There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine . The long stretches of the waterway ran on , deserted , into the gloom of overshadowed distances . On ...
... silent , so quiet — as silent and quiet as the ruined house on the hill - made me uneasy . There was no sign on the face of ... silence . The Russian was explaining to me that it was only lately that Mr. Kurtz had come down to the river ...
... silence — in silence . . . . You were with him — to the last ? I think of his loneliness . Nobody near to understand him as I would have understood . Perhaps no one to hear .. " " To the very end , ' I said , shakily . ' I heard his ...