Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

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

页数:204

出版时间:1920-1-1

价格:GBP 4.44

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780553212143

图书标签:JosephConrad英国英文原版现代主义英文文学和小说英文原版书小说Bantam

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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.

Publisher Comments:

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.

读后感

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...

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...  

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...  

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...  

用户评价

基调灰暗，写法一般。 晦涩不是深刻的代名词！！

a rare and weird beauty

Truly weird... 康拉德果真不是英国人，波兰血统诚不我欺。读Heart of Darkness的时候很轻易地就被康拉德的文字带入刚果的黑暗腹地，并被卷入一片深邃的未知，这可能也就是Kurtz的恐惧来源，相比之下第二篇Secret Sharer就要好读得多。读过这两篇后才真切理解Sunless Sea里晦涩文本的启发来自康拉德而非爱手艺，初玩无光之海的时候，谁还不是Secret Sharer里孤立无援的年轻船长呢。Heart of Darkness真乃神品中篇，待精读重刷。另，开头的序言写得很好，比网上那些杂七杂八的书评分析得透彻多了。

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.

基调灰暗，写法一般。 晦涩不是深刻的代名词！！