HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for his fearsome reputation. On his journey into the unknown Marlow takes a terrifying trip into his own subconscious, overwhelmed by his menacing, perilous and horrifying surroundings. The landscape and the people he meets force him to reflect on human nature and society, and in turn Conrad writes revealingly about the dangers of imperialism.
Women as the Other Two women in black Since the publication of Heart of Darkness, it has weltered in lots of controversial voices. This book is regarded as a story about Marlow’s witness of the collapse of the civilization, which has nothing to do with wo...
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 评分 评分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...
我承认我压根没读懂,准备过几年重新读吧。这种人应该都是master of language吧。话说他很喜欢inextinguishable这个词。。
评分第一刷,相对畅销小说不是太好读,不认识的形容词很多;
评分It's as complicated but not only savage as imagination goes. Something touching also penetrating is also revealed.
评分我英文差,没读完原版。回头看,这不就是帝国与殖民体系之下的“空心病”么
评分我承认我压根没读懂,准备过几年重新读吧。这种人应该都是master of language吧。话说他很喜欢inextinguishable这个词。。
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