Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

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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.

出版者:Bantam Classics
作者:Joseph Conrad
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页数:204
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出版时间:1920-1-1
价格:GBP 4.44
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780553212143
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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.

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康拉德似乎偏爱黑色,他的丛林小说都十分浓墨重彩,绝大部分情节要么发生在夜晚,要么在被树木和浓雾遮住了天光的昏暗白昼。如果说这两部小说的基调都是孤独,那么,《黑暗的心》更多是关于死亡与绝望,而《吉姆爷》则关于恐惧和逃避。对于这两部小说的主人公而言,欧洲意味着...  

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康拉德的法语比英语好,当时据说英语写作更利于出版,他在20岁时开始学习英语。 F.R.利维斯在《伟大的传统》中列举大量的例子批评康拉德的英语: The same vocabulary, the same adjective insistence upon inexpressible and incomprehensible mystery, is applied to the evo...  

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康拉德似乎偏爱黑色,他的丛林小说都十分浓墨重彩,绝大部分情节要么发生在夜晚,要么在被树木和浓雾遮住了天光的昏暗白昼。如果说这两部小说的基调都是孤独,那么,《黑暗的心》更多是关于死亡与绝望,而《吉姆爷》则关于恐惧和逃避。对于这两部小说的主人公而言,欧洲意味着...  

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现实生活中这样的人并不少,不少人都是嘴上的梦想家,说着自己要成为怎样怎样的人,信心十足,可后来,渐渐地,当初挂在嘴边的话消失了。 开始于一段船上水手们交流故事,人们聚在一起总是需要一些话题来促进彼此的交流了解。马洛是一个阅历丰富的人,这一点无论从他的外貌还是...

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英国文学史课上初读约瑟夫·康拉德的英文版《黑暗之心》(The Heart of Darkness)时,我毫不例外被作者笔下刻画出的十九与二十世纪之交,帝国主义和殖民主义所衍生出的霸权统治的野蛮、种族压迫的晦暗、现代文明的矛盾所深深震撼。然而,当体验了社会性别与女性研究的知识后,...  

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对不起读不懂qwq,secret sharer好读多了

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在20世纪初的文坛恐怕从未见过这样的主题和写作手法。氤氲潮湿的刚果丛林里殖民主义的罪恶,黑与白的强烈对比,充满神秘色彩的原始气息,挥之不去的窃窃私语,黑暗深处难以参透的重重迷雾……整个故事笼罩在一种压抑的混沌之中。一个寻找kurtz的小小悬念贯穿始终,情节再简单不过,但是叙述却枝蔓缠绕,阻滞着读着前进的脚步。主题与文字相得益彰,共同构成一幅魔幻狂野阴暗潮湿的异域图景。这不是一部能用“思想主题”来解读的小说,而只能是一种体验过程,是为现代主义的先驱。

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更喜欢The Secret Sharer,至于Heart of Darkness嘛。。。我知道它是一本好书但是我看了四五遍了都没看下去过啊。。。

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Its not the story but the way of telling that captured me. A call of the wild for we who live in such a so called civiled world.

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manifestation of the duality of humanity and civilization

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