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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... stopped , and the silence driven away by the stamping of our feet flowed back again from the recesses of the land . The great wall of vegetation , an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks , branches , leaves , boughs , festoons ...
... stopped running with a muffled rattle , a cry , a very loud cry , as of infinite desolation , soared slowly in the opaque air . It ceased . A complaining clamor , modulated in savage discords , filled our ears . The sheer unexpectedness ...
... stopped in a fright . " Repeat them , ' she murmured in a heartbroken tone . ' I want - I want something - something - to - to live with . ' " I was on the point of crying at her , ' Don't you hear them ? ' The dusk was repeating them ...