Cuore di tenebra

Primo libro di Conrad che leggo, Cuore di Tenebra racconta di un capitano un po' sui generis per il suo modo di vedere tormentato dal ricordo del capitano che l'ha preceduto al timone di una compagnia in cui è stato assunto in gioventù tramite la raccomandazione di una vecchia zia. Complimenti all' autore per l'idea e per come ha descritto il personaggio tanto da renderlo reale.

First of all, get this straight: Heart of Darkness is one of those classics that you have to have read if you want to consider yourself a well-educated adult.     Having watched Apocalypse Now doesn’t count — if anything, it ups the ante, since that means you have to think about the similari Leggi tutto

Proving yet again that doing a concept first will get you immortalized, while doing it WELL will make you an unknown and forgotten writer at best, I also learned that in Conrad's time, people could drone on and on with metaphors and it wasn't considered cliched, but "art." I blame this book and othe Leggi tutto

Never in all my life has 100 little pages made me contemplate suicide...violent suicide. i had to finish it. i had no choice (yay college!). every page was literally painful. am i supposed to feel sorry for him? because i don't. i feel sorry for all of Africa getting invaded with dumbasses like this Leggi tutto

From 1885 to 1908, an area in Africa now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then under the rule of King Leopold II of Belgium, experienced an intense genocide . Through the Red Rubber system, the people of the Congo were essentially enslaved to harvest rubber. Those who failed to collect Leggi tutto

Blessed was Odysseus, who returned, full of wisdom, after many conquests and adventures to live a peaceful old age with his wife and family. It didn’t go that well for Charles Marlow. Heart of Darkness is like The Odyssey or The Divine Comedy or the story of Sindbad or any hero’s journey for that ma Leggi tutto

Joseph Conrad seems to have known every nook and cranny of human soul… And this priceless knowledge made him one of the greatest innovators… And Heart of Darkness is simultaneously a polestar and milestone in the world literature. But as I stood on this hillside, I foresaw that in the blinding sunshi Leggi tutto

I still don't know what I read here. I finished this book with one sort-of word spinning around in my head... "eh?" I read the whole book. Every page, every sentence, every word. And I couldn't tell you what it was about. I think I must have read more challenging books than this - Ulysses , Swann's Way Leggi tutto

Is Joseph Conrad a racist? Well, that is a question, a question that is extremely difficult to answer. There are certainly racist aspects within Heart of Darkness. However, how far this is Conrad’s own personal opinion is near impossible to tell. Certainly, Marlowe, the protagonist and narrator, h Leggi tutto