Conrad was born on 12/3/1857, in a part of Russia that had once belonged to Poland. His parents were members of the landed gentry, but as ardent Polish patriots they suffered considerably for their political views. Orphaned at 11, Conrad attended school in Cracow but concluded that there was no future for him in occupied Poland, and at 16 he left forever. The sea was Conrad's love and career for the next 20 years; in the British merchant navy, he rose finally to captain, sailing to Australia and Borneo and surviving at least one shipwreck. In 1890 he became captain of a Congo River steamer, but this led only to disillusionment and ill health and this would become the basis for Conrad's masterpiece, Heart of Darkness. Reluctantly leaving the merchant service, he settled in England and completed his first novel, Almayer's Folly, already begun at sea.
Heart of Darkness is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Before publication, it appeared in a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine (1899). This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame tale, following a man named Charlie Marlow, as he recounts his adventure to a group of men, onboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary, at dusk and continuing into the evening. It details an incident earlier in Marlow's life when he, an Englishman, takes a foreign assignment as a ferry boat captain on what readers can assume is the Congo River in the Belgian owned Congo Free State; the name of the country is never specified in the text. Though his job is to transport ivory downriver, Marlow quickly develops an intense interest in investigating Kurtz, an ivory procurement agent in the employment of the government. Kurtz's reputation extends throughout the region.
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Heart Of Darkness. The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth — and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.
康拉德及其写作特点 约瑟夫.康拉德,资深航海家文人,热爱航海加写文。出生于1857年,原籍波兰。父母因参加民族独立运动被沙俄政府流放。10岁时父母双亡,由舅舅抚养成长。17岁前往马赛,来到一艘法国商船上——这成为康拉德长达20年海上生涯的开端。此后他从水手一步步晋...
评分据Wiki,Konrad1857年12月3日出生于乌克兰Berdichev市一个贵族爱国者家庭,他的父亲Apollo是位政治题材的剧作家并且精于翻译法文和英文作品。1861年,Apollo由于涉嫌从事1863-64年一月起义的准备活动,被俄国皇家机构逮捕,流放到莫斯科东北480km的城市沃洛格达。四岁的Konrad...
评分 评分康拉德似乎偏爱黑色,他的丛林小说都十分浓墨重彩,绝大部分情节要么发生在夜晚,要么在被树木和浓雾遮住了天光的昏暗白昼。如果说这两部小说的基调都是孤独,那么,《黑暗的心》更多是关于死亡与绝望,而《吉姆爷》则关于恐惧和逃避。对于这两部小说的主人公而言,欧洲意味着...
评分英国文学史课上初读约瑟夫·康拉德的英文版《黑暗之心》(The Heart of Darkness)时,我毫不例外被作者笔下刻画出的十九与二十世纪之交,帝国主义和殖民主义所衍生出的霸权统治的野蛮、种族压迫的晦暗、现代文明的矛盾所深深震撼。然而,当体验了社会性别与女性研究的知识后,...
康纳德擅长营造气氛,和Marlow一起慢慢沉入黑暗里,Marlow回来了,也没回来
评分just started my reading. my impression on this novel is that it is a book imbued with a slight absurdity. and I feel not very comfortable with Conrad's language, it has a bit of exoticness.
评分manifestation of the duality of humanity and civilization
评分Truly weird... 康拉德果真不是英国人,波兰血统诚不我欺。读Heart of Darkness的时候很轻易地就被康拉德的文字带入刚果的黑暗腹地,并被卷入一片深邃的未知,这可能也就是Kurtz的恐惧来源,相比之下第二篇Secret Sharer就要好读得多。读过这两篇后才真切理解Sunless Sea里晦涩文本的启发来自康拉德而非爱手艺,初玩无光之海的时候,谁还不是Secret Sharer里孤立无援的年轻船长呢。Heart of Darkness真乃神品中篇,待精读重刷。另,开头的序言写得很好,比网上那些杂七杂八的书评分析得透彻多了。
评分郁郁葱葱的腹地,遮蔽天地的原始森林,危险的河流,黑暗之心。
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