Heart of Darkness (Webster's Chinese-Simplified Thesaurus Edition)

Paperback, 120 pages

English language

Published May 5, 2006 by ICON Reference.

ISBN:
9780497260460

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2 stars (1 review)

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English 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 Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.

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My Bookcrossing review from February 02, 2006:

For those who aren’t aware of the fact, Heart of Darkness is the novella from which Francis Ford Coppola took his inspiration for Apocalypse Now. Seeing the film before reading the book was probably a mistake, especially when the film was so fresh in my memory, as I was struggling to find parallels between the two. Apart from the two main characters and the river, there are not a lot of obvious similarities. I actually think that Conrad and Coppola are giving us quite different messages, and that they focus on subtly different themes. I’m not much of an intellectual, so I’ll have to leave my analysis at that.

Anyway, I managed to read this one in a weekend, as it’s only 110 pages, although it wasn’t exactly a light read. Conrad’s awkward and sometimes ambiguous prose made it more of a chore …

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