Heart of DarknessDover Publications, 1. jul. 1990 - 80 sider Although Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his "most famous, finest, and most enigmatic story." — Encyclopaedia Britannica. The tale concerns the journey of the narrator (Marlow) up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Far upriver, he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, an ivory trader who exercises an almost godlike sway over the inhabitants of the region. Both repelled and fascinated by the man, Marlow is brought face to face with the corruption and despair that Conrad saw at the heart of human existence. |
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... trees . Then , glancing down , I saw a face near my hand . The black bones reclined at full length with one shoulder against the tree , and slowly the eyelids rose and the sunken eyes looked up at me , enormous and vacant , a kind of ...
... Trees , trees , millions of trees , massive , immense , running up high ; and at their foot , hugging the bank against the stream , crept the little begrimed steamboat , like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico ...
... trees , lashed together by the creepers and every living bush of the undergrowth , might have been changed into stone , even to the slenderest twig , to the lightest leaf . It was not sleep - it seemed unnatural , like a state of trance ...