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With an Introduction by Caryl Phillips
Commentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip Gourevitch
"Heart of Darkness," which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence," wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz.
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. 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."
著者簡介
Jospeh Conrad (1957-1924) grew up amid political unrest in Russian-occupied Poland. After twenty years at sea with the French and British merchant navies, he settled in England in 1894. Over the next three decades he revolutionized the English novel with works such as Typhoon (1902), Youth (1902), Nostromo (1904), The Secret Agent (1907), Under Western Eyes (1911), Chance (1913), and Victory (1915).
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Introduction (by Caryl Phillips)
Commentary
Heart of Darkness
Selections from The Congo Diary
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A book with the power of killing people. the power of inspiring poetry. the power of destroying love hate and humanity, beauty and horror, with all its ambiguity and sudden insights. The title is a metaphor disappointingly obvious, but the novella itself manages to grip on without becoming too predictable.
评分A book with the power of killing people. the power of inspiring poetry. the power of destroying love hate and humanity, beauty and horror, with all its ambiguity and sudden insights. The title is a metaphor disappointingly obvious, but the novella itself manages to grip on without becoming too predictable.
评分A book with the power of killing people. the power of inspiring poetry. the power of destroying love hate and humanity, beauty and horror, with all its ambiguity and sudden insights. The title is a metaphor disappointingly obvious, but the novella itself manages to grip on without becoming too predictable.
评分Humans are born to be evil.
评分GRE詞匯集錦，每頁少則三五個，多則七八個。
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