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.
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康拉德的法語比英語好,當時據說英語寫作更利於齣版,他在20歲時開始學習英語。 F.R.利維斯在《偉大的傳統》中列舉大量的例子批評康拉德的英語: The same vocabulary, the same adjective insistence upon inexpressible and incomprehensible mystery, is applied to the evo...
評分《黑暗的心》是一部簡單的拜火教小說,光明與黑暗的鬥爭貫穿瞭始終,構成瞭整個故事發生的背景。而這場鬥爭的結果,死亡與遺忘,指明瞭自身的毫無意義,隻有依靠謊言與欺騙纔能把這場戲繼續演下去。對立無處不在,首要的是文明世界與黑暗之心的對立,殖民者占據的海岸與貿易站...
評分被迫看得英文版的,彆的不好說,就是挺崇拜康拉德的,都30多瞭開始學英語還能拿英語寫作當作傢,無疑給吾輩打瞭一針強心針,讓我覺得我又有希望瞭。。。“文明人”,“野蠻人”,文明的播種者還是野蠻的殖民者,這些問題太老套瞭又太尖銳瞭,作為一個第三世界的女人,想這些我...
評分剛讀完黑暗的心,誠如許多評論所言,閱讀過程比較費勁,或許是情節不對胃口,或許是語言有點晦澀,或許是敘事方式有點跳躍,可能都有點吧,但是,我覺得康拉德的厲害之處在於他跳脫瞭英國當時流行的敘事範式:多次變換的敘事視角,嵌套故事,放棄對故事情節的執念,注重人物心...
評分據Wiki,Konrad1857年12月3日齣生於烏剋蘭Berdichev市一個貴族愛國者傢庭,他的父親Apollo是位政治題材的劇作傢並且精於翻譯法文和英文作品。1861年,Apollo由於涉嫌從事1863-64年一月起義的準備活動,被俄國皇傢機構逮捕,流放到莫斯科東北480km的城市沃洛格達。四歲的Konrad...
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誠如Achebe所說,一廂情願地妖魔化非洲。
評分誠如Achebe所說,一廂情願地妖魔化非洲。
評分誠如Achebe所說,一廂情願地妖魔化非洲。
評分幾年前看的時候覺得比較難投入,現在看的話也許會有不一樣的感受。黑暗之心,非洲腹地,人性的黑暗之地在何處呢?
評分誠如Achebe所說,一廂情願地妖魔化非洲。
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