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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad.
Mass Market Paperback
First published 1899.
Published by Penguin Books.
First published 1899.
Published by Penguin Books.
ISBN 13: 9780140431681
ISBN 10: 0140431683
ASIN: B001KTM47C
Author Joseph Conrad based this
novella on his own personal experiences, during a voyage up the Congo River in
1890.
This novella was the inspiration for
the movie Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Description:
Written in the last year of the
nineteenth century, Heart of Darkness can be seen in many ways as the first
twentieth-century novel.
Its climate of doubt and vagueness,
its loss of moral confidence and its need for belief in the midst of spiritual
wilderness, its exploration of the subconscious and its affirmation of
individual freedom are all themes that were to have an influence on writers
such as Orwell, Godling Céline, Borges and Eliot.
In Heart of Darkness Conrad unfolds
the story of Marlow’s search for Mr Kurtz, the company agent whose ‘unlawful
soul’ has been ‘beguiled beyond the bounds of permitted aspirations’ in his
dealings with the natives of the Belgian Congo. Marlow’s adventure involves him
in a crucial reappraisal of his own values. It is Kurtz, however, who attains
to a vision of the inexpressible, terrifying reality of the heart in this
extraordinary exploration of human savagery and despair.
Book cover image: The Steamer
Stanley, by F. Hens.
ISBN 10: 0140431683
ASIN: B001KTM47C
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