Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
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Yet another classic fiction becomes a Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection.
About
this book:
Heart of
Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad, is a short novel about Charles
Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in
Central Africa. This river is described to be “... a mighty big
river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake
uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at rest curving afar
over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land.”
In the course of his commercial-agent work in Africa, the seaman
Marlow becomes obsessed by Mr. Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, a
man of established notoriety among the natives and the European
colonials.
Aboard the
Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles
Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his
appointment as captain of a river-steamboat for an ivory trading
company. He describes his passage on ships to the wilderness to the
Company's station, which strikes Marlow as a scene of devastation:
disorganized, machinery parts here and there, periodic demolition
explosions, weakened native black men who have been demoralized, in
chains, literally being worked to death, and strolling behind them a
white Company man in a uniform carrying a rifle.
Marlow
leaves with a caravan to travel on foot some two hundred miles deeper
into the wilderness to the Central Station, where the steamboat that
he is to captain is based. Marlow is shocked to learn that his
steamboat had been wrecked two days before his arrival. The manager
explains that they needed to take the steamboat up-river because of
rumours that an important station was in jeopardy and that its chief,
Mr. Kurtz, was ill. Marlow describes the Company men at this station
as lazy back-biting "pilgrims", fraught with envy and
jealousy, all trying to gain a higher status within the Company,
which in turn, would provide more personal profit; however, they
sought these goals in a meaningless, ineffective and lazy manner,
mixed with a sense that they were all merely waiting, while trying to
stay out of harm's way. After fishing his boat out of the river,
Marlow is frustrated by the months spent on repairs.
Once
underway, the journey up-river to the Inner Station, Kurtz's station,
takes two months to the day. On board are the manager, three or four
"pilgrims" and some twenty "cannibals" enlisted
as crew.
They come
to rest for the night about eight miles below the Inner Station. In
the morning they awake to find that they are enveloped by a thick,
white fog. From the riverbank they hear a very loud cry, followed by
a discordant clamour. A few hours later, as safe navigation becomes
increasingly difficult, the steamboat is hit with a barrage of
sticks—small arrows—from the wilderness. The pilgrims open fire
into the bush with their Winchester rifles. The native serving as
helmsman gives up steering to pick up a rifle and fire it. Marlow
grabs the wheel to avoid snags in the river. The helmsman is impaled
by a spear and falls at Marlow's feet...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About
the author:
Joseph
Conrad (3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish author who
wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British
nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole. Conrad is
regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did
not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties (and
always with a marked accent). He wrote stories and novels, often with
a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the
midst of an indifferent universe. He was a master prose stylist who
brought a distinctly non-English tragic sensibility into English
literature.
Writing in
the heyday of the British Empire, Conrad drew on his native Poland's
national experiences and on his personal experiences in the French
and British merchant navies, to create short stories and novels that
reflect aspects of a European-dominated world, while plumbing the
depths of the human soul.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
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