Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Subjects: Africa -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction, Degeneration -- fiction, PR, Trading posts -- Fiction, Imperialism -- Fiction, I
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Subjects: Africa -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Europeans -- Africa -- Fiction, Degeneration -- fiction, PR, Trading posts -- Fiction, Imperialism -- Fiction, I
Downloads: 557
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, London, England. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between London and Africa as places of darkness. Central to Conrad's work is the idea that there is little difference between so-called civilised people and those described as savages; Heart of Darkness raises important questions about imperialism and racism. Originally published as a three-part serial story in Blackwood's Magazine, Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the twentieth century. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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