Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice.
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In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English - his third language. He once described himself as being concerned "with the ideal value of things, events and people" in the Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus he defined his task as "by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see."
Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.
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This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890 - the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life."
飘渺的云烟,迷茫的大海,扑朔迷离的街灯在岸上。 日子如同梦一般,花白的,模糊不清。 我们开始听马洛讲过去的故事。这个故事关于主角自己深入非洲腹地寻找库尔兹,掠夺象牙。 马洛讲故事的方式对我们很受用,我们仿佛只是朋友间的闲聊,轻松自如。虽然故事的最后,这个说故事...
评分Heart of Darkness]是第一人称叙事,很口语化。一个海员到非洲刚果一个贸易公司去做跑船,带领一群人开着破船去河流的上游找一个神奇的同事,一个非常有能力的连土著人都佩服他的 kurtz 先生。他们费劲力气找到先生后却发现他完全不是想象中的样子,而是做了土著人的神,压根不...
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...
评分康拉德及其写作特点 约瑟夫.康拉德,资深航海家文人,热爱航海加写文。出生于1857年,原籍波兰。父母因参加民族独立运动被沙俄政府流放。10岁时父母双亡,由舅舅抚养成长。17岁前往马赛,来到一艘法国商船上——这成为康拉德长达20年海上生涯的开端。此后他从水手一步步晋...
评分黑暗深处有什么?这是个很恐怖的问题,谁知道黑暗深处会有什么?也许什么都没有,也许有美好的东西,也许是可怕的东西,因为看不到,所以一切都有可能,但是很奇怪,对这黑暗中的千万种可能总是下意识的觉得是不祥的所在。 约瑟夫·康拉德以及他的这本《黑暗深处》保...
@Mr. Kosnik CONFUSING IT IS.
评分The Congo Diary 补完.
评分@Mr. Kosnik CONFUSING IT IS.
评分Marlow作为贯穿康拉德四部作品的叙述者,在这部作品中保持了其对于理解的一贯渴望以及理解的一贯无果。The "heart" of darkness, heart其实可以用“中心”一义解,随着Marlow追随Kurtz的路径逐渐深入刚果殖民地,在地理、心理两个层面抵达Kurtz堕落的终点站,Marlow对Kurtz的理解却毫无进展,反而越发迷惑,一切理解对象自始至终处于光晕(haze)之中。临终前的Kurtz卧于昏暗的房间,Marlow提着手中的一盏灯走近他,康拉德将这一刻的光影交错描绘得细致入微,灯下的Kurtz迎来了他在全书中最明亮的时刻,而Marlow这盏试图理解的灯却仍旧无法还原Kurtz堕落的过程。地理、心理两个层面抵达Kurtz堕落的终点站,Marlow对Kurtz的理解却...
评分第五本英文小说成就达成!!
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