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."
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."
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評分《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...
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唉忘記標記瞭 conrad文筆好極瞭 prose寫的深入骨髓的冷峻 但是敘事起來簡直無聊透頂(。
评分為瞭教課我真是很努力地讀瞭一遍又一遍,可還是沒喜歡上。打開方式不對?
评分唉忘記標記瞭 conrad文筆好極瞭 prose寫的深入骨髓的冷峻 但是敘事起來簡直無聊透頂(。
评分嚇人倒怪的。。喜歡Intended的beautiful expression
评分看得很纍。大概這就是所謂的不毛地帶——不僅在於這片令人絕望的土地,更在於這片土地上異化瞭的人心。
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