Heart of Darkness (conrad Classics)
by J
About This Novel
"Heart of Darkness" is Joseph Conrad's masterpiece and one of the important works in the history of English fiction. Its importance stems from the profound speculation and analysis of human nature, the painful reflection on colonial rule and the innovation of narrative techniques. As a Polish-born English novelist, Conrad revolutionized the weak and declining English writing at that time with his powerful and profound style, paving the way for the peak of modernism set off by writers such as Joyce and Eliot. The novel takes Marlowe's process of rescuing Kurtz in the Congo colony as the main line, and uses the huge tension composed of multiple narratives as the framework to deeply explore the test of human nature in the face of the call of the wild, revealing the loneliness and emptiness of modern human existence.
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