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.
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.
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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.
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...
评分先说说为什么趁着la fête des morts要看这本书,其实是因为看了《金刚》,然后去刷了《现代启示录》。电影前半部分是经典的反战倾向,但到了后半部分却完全跳脱出了战争的内涵,上升到了人类对于原始文明的理解,偶像崇拜、祭祀仪式……这在现代人看来“愚昧无知”的文明,却...
评分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...
评分《黑暗的心》是一部简单的拜火教小说,光明与黑暗的斗争贯穿了始终,构成了整个故事发生的背景。而这场斗争的结果,死亡与遗忘,指明了自身的毫无意义,只有依靠谎言与欺骗才能把这场戏继续演下去。对立无处不在,首要的是文明世界与黑暗之心的对立,殖民者占据的海岸与贸易站...
评分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...
对不起读不懂qwq,secret sharer好读多了
评分更喜欢The Secret Sharer,至于Heart of Darkness嘛。。。我知道它是一本好书但是我看了四五遍了都没看下去过啊。。。
评分对不起读不懂qwq,secret sharer好读多了
评分郁郁葱葱的腹地,遮蔽天地的原始森林,危险的河流,黑暗之心。
评分就是马克一下= =
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