Heart of Darkness Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Heart of Darkness Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- ISBN 13:
9780679428015
- ISBN 10:
0679428011
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/26/1993
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
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Summary
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Heart of Darknessgrew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power. Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure story, in which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem.Heart of Darknessis a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul.