Heart of Darkness is a short novel written by Joseph Conrad,
written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow's life as an
ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river
is "a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling
an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body at
rest curving afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the
depths of the land." In the course of his travel in central Africa,
Marlow becomes obsessed with Mr. Kurtz.
The story is a complex exploration of the attitudes people hold on
what constitutes a barbarian versus a civilized society and the
attitudes on colonialism and racism that were part and parcel of
European imperialism. Originally published as a three-part serial
story, in Blackwood's Magazine, the novella Heart of Darkness has
been variously published and translated into many languages. In
1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the
sixty-seventh of the hundred best novels in English of the
twentieth century.
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