Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Before publication, it appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine (1899). This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame tale, following a man named Charlie Marlow, as he recounts his adventure to a group of men, onboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, at dusk and continuing into the evening. It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life when he, an Englishman, takes a foreign assignment as a ferry boat captain on what readers can assume is the Congo River in the Belgian owned Congo Free State; the name of the country is never specified in the text. Though his job is to transport ivory downriver, Marlow quickly develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory procurement agent in the employment of the government. Kurtz's reputation extends throughout the region.
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Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth — and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.
Conrad was born on 12/3/1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots they suffered considerably for their political views. Orphaned at 11, Conrad attended school in Cracow but concluded that there was no future for him in occupied Poland, and at 16 he left forever. The sea was Conrad's love and career for the next 20 years; in the British merchant navy, he rose finally to captain, sailing to Australia and Borneo and surviving at least one shipwreck. In 1890 he became captain of a Congo River steamer, but this led only to disillusionment and ill health and this would become the basis for Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. Reluctantly leaving the merchant service, he settled in England and completed his first novel, Almayer's Folly, already begun at sea.
刚读完黑暗的心,诚如许多评论所言,阅读过程比较费劲,或许是情节不对胃口,或许是语言有点晦涩,或许是叙事方式有点跳跃,可能都有点吧,但是,我觉得康拉德的厉害之处在于他跳脱了英国当时流行的叙事范式:多次变换的叙事视角,嵌套故事,放弃对故事情节的执念,注重人物心...
评分 评分被迫看得英文版的,别的不好说,就是挺崇拜康拉德的,都30多了开始学英语还能拿英语写作当作家,无疑给吾辈打了一针强心针,让我觉得我又有希望了。。。“文明人”,“野蛮人”,文明的播种者还是野蛮的殖民者,这些问题太老套了又太尖锐了,作为一个第三世界的女人,想这些我...
评分据Wiki,Konrad1857年12月3日出生于乌克兰Berdichev市一个贵族爱国者家庭,他的父亲Apollo是位政治题材的剧作家并且精于翻译法文和英文作品。1861年,Apollo由于涉嫌从事1863-64年一月起义的准备活动,被俄国皇家机构逮捕,流放到莫斯科东北480km的城市沃洛格达。四岁的Konrad...
评分在大多数英雄故事中,主角需要勇气和坚韧去赢得胜利,但主要是针对外部环境对他们造成的挑战做出回应。西方古典文学遵循这一传统,行为主宰情节,在时间递进中,一步步丰满三一律所需,完善因果链条上的动机与结局,试图让一切清楚无误。现代小说与古典小说的分野,令时间之线...
a rare and weird beauty
评分a rare and weird beauty
评分第二个故事比第一个故事好懂一点 黑暗之心真的看的云里雾里 随便翻开一页 即使之前已经读过了 也完全没有印象 真难以相信作者的母语不是英语 我的英文水平还是太差了
评分just started my reading. my impression on this novel is that it is a book imbued with a slight absurdity. and I feel not very comfortable with Conrad's language, it has a bit of exoticness.
评分manifestation of the duality of humanity and civilization
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