具体描述
Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.
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This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890 - the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, "His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life."
作者简介
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. His parents, ardent Polish patriots, died when he was a child, following their exile for anti-Russian activities, and he came under the protection of his tradition-conscious uncle, Thaddeus Bobrowski, who watched over him for the next twenty-five years. In 1874 Bobrowski conceded to his nephew's passionate desire to go to sea, and Conrad travelled to Marseilles, where he served in French merchant vessels before joining a British ship in 1878 as an apprentice.
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In 1886 he obtained British nationality and his Master's certificate in the British Merchant Service. Eight years later he left the sea to devote himself to writing, publishing his first novel, Almayer's Folly, in 1895. The following year he married Jessie George and eventually settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English - his third language. He once described himself as being concerned "with the ideal value of things, events and people" in the Preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus he defined his task as "by the power of the written word ... before all, to make you see."
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Women as the Other Two women in black Since the publication of Heart of Darkness, it has weltered in lots of controversial voices. This book is regarded as a story about Marlow’s witness of the collapse of the civilization, which has nothing to do with wo...
评分被迫看得英文版的，别的不好说，就是挺崇拜康拉德的，都30多了开始学英语还能拿英语写作当作家，无疑给吾辈打了一针强心针，让我觉得我又有希望了。。。“文明人”，“野蛮人”，文明的播种者还是野蛮的殖民者，这些问题太老套了又太尖锐了，作为一个第三世界的女人，想这些我...
评分 评分Women as the Other Two women in black Since the publication of Heart of Darkness, it has weltered in lots of controversial voices. This book is regarded as a story about Marlow’s witness of the collapse of the civilization, which has nothing to do with wo...
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评分如果要用一个词来概括这本书带给我的感受，那一定是“不安的清醒”。它毫不留情地撕开了“文明”这层薄纱，展示了其背后隐藏的、赤裸裸的权力逻辑和无节制的欲望。那些关于殖民主义的批判固然深刻，但更令人心悸的是它对权力如何腐蚀和重塑人类灵魂的细致入微的解剖。核心人物的形象塑造得极为复杂，他既是那个世界的极端体现，又像是所有试图在黑暗中寻找意义的人的悲剧性缩影。他所代表的，与其说是某个特定历史阶段的罪恶，不如说是人类自身灵魂深处可以被唤醒的、不受约束的混沌。阅读完毕后，我久久无法从那种精神的寒意中抽离出来，它不是一本可以轻松翻阅的小说，而是一次必须全神贯注、甚至有些痛苦的内省之旅。它挑战了你对“进步”和“理性”的信心，迫使你承认，在某些条件下，黑暗才是最稳定的状态。
评分从文学技巧的角度来看，叙事视角的切换和控制是极其高明的。它构建了一个“故事中的故事”的层次感，既保持了故事的原始震撼力，又通过一个旁观者的冷静回忆，赋予了事件一种历史的重量和距离感。这种疏离感是必要的，因为它允许我们从一个相对安全的角度去观察那种彻底的、毁灭性的沉沦。叙述者本人在旅途中的心理变化，也是一个绝佳的观察点——他既是局中人，也是局外人，他的疑惑、他的抗拒、他对真相的渴望，都成为了我们代入角色的桥梁。这种双重性避免了叙事落入简单的道德批判，而是将其提升到对人性本质的哲学拷问。每一次与“核心”的接近，都伴随着叙述者自身世界观的崩塌，这种缓慢而痛苦的觉醒，让结局带来的冲击力更具穿透性，它不是一个突如其来的爆发，而是一种对既有认知的系统性摧毁。
评分conrad20岁之后接触英文而将英语用得这么好 是礁湖那篇的深林水的天光吸引过来 但可能自己英文看得太少了 长篇反而觉得累赘 描写看多了疲倦然后 啊
评分又要征服，又要批判被“野蛮”同化。究竟谁该高呼'horror'。
评分conrad20岁之后接触英文而将英语用得这么好 是礁湖那篇的深林水的天光吸引过来 但可能自己英文看得太少了 长篇反而觉得累赘 描写看多了疲倦然后 啊
评分其实这里面关于声音、图像和文字之间的关系，颇可以讨论
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