Heart of Darkness
About this book
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow. Marlow tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest English writers, and Heart of Darkness is considered his best. His readers are brought to face our psychological selves to answer, ‘Who is the true savage?’. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity.
Subjects
- africa, fiction
- aufsatzsammlung
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- conrad, joseph, 1857-1924
- conrad, joseph, 1857-1924. heart of darkness
- critique
- degeneration
- description and travel
- diaries
- discoveries in geography
- discovery and exploration
- doppelgängers
- drama
- english fiction
- english literature
- english psychological fiction
- europeans
- europeens
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, psychological
- form:novella
- fugitives from justice
- genre:historical fiction
- heart of darkness (conrad)
- heart of darkness (conrad, joseph)
- history and criticism
- imperialism
- journeys
- literatura inglesa
- literatura inglesa (história e crítica)
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- medicine in literature
- mystery
- open library staff picks
- psychological aspects
- roman anglais
- romance
- romans
- sailors
- sea stories
- ship captains
- short stories
- souffrance
- suffering
- trading posts
- travel
- voyages and travels