Heart of Darkness

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Joseph Conrad

页数:420

出版时间:1987-10

价格:USD 12.80

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780393955521

图书标签:ConradBritish.Literature

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Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story "Youth" and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company's most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz's compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz's dying words, "The horror! The horror!" represent despair at the encounter with human depravity--the heart of darkness. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

读后感

英国文学史课上初读约瑟夫·康拉德的英文版《黑暗之心》（The Heart of Darkness）时，我毫不例外被作者笔下刻画出的十九与二十世纪之交，帝国主义和殖民主义所衍生出的霸权统治的野蛮、种族压迫的晦暗、现代文明的矛盾所深深震撼。然而，当体验了社会性别与女性研究的知识后，...  

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用户评价

几年前看的时候觉得比较难投入，现在看的话也许会有不一样的感受。黑暗之心，非洲腹地，人性的黑暗之地在何处呢？

诚如Achebe所说，一厢情愿地妖魔化非洲。

几年前看的时候觉得比较难投入，现在看的话也许会有不一样的感受。黑暗之心，非洲腹地，人性的黑暗之地在何处呢？

诚如Achebe所说，一厢情愿地妖魔化非洲。

诚如Achebe所说，一厢情愿地妖魔化非洲。