Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer - Side 49af Joseph Conrad - 2004 - 208 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
| 1899 - 1284 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the...meeting Kurtz very soon. When I say very soon I mean comparatively. It was just two months from the day we left the creek when we came to the bank below... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 410 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the...below Kurtz's station. " Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 402 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the...below Kurtz's station. " Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1903 - 398 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the...left the creek when we came to the bank below Kurtz's star earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.... | |
| Joseph Conrad, Georges Jean-Aubry - 1927 - 384 sider
...an interminable voyage, for he says in "Heart of Darkness": '"It was just two months from the date we left the creek when we came to the bank below Kurtz's station." Nothing could give one the very sensation of this up-stream journey on board a small boat of fifteen... | |
| 1900 - 874 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the prospect of meeting Kurtz very soon. When The Heart of Darkness. I say very soon, I mean comparatively. It was just two months from the day we... | |
| Joseph Conrad - 1990 - 84 sider
...fate of the less valuable animals. They, no doubt, like the rest of us, found what they deserved. I did not inquire. I was then rather excited at the...came to the bank below Kurtz's station. "Going up lhat river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted... | |
| Tzvetan Todorov - 1990 - 150 sider
...way of approaching truth. Space symbolizes time; the story's adventures foster understanding. "Cloing up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world ..." (34). "We were travelling in the night of first ages ..." (36). The "mythological" narrative (of... | |
| Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 sider
...at Kurtz's station in the jungle, he is "transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors." "Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world," and it is also like traveling deep into one's own mind, a locus associated appropriately with dreams:... | |
| George Myerson, Yvonne Rydin - 1996 - 276 sider
...character of solemnity, absent in those countries long civilized. (Darwin 1959(1845): 280) Going up the river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on Earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. (Conrad... | |
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