Conrad finished Heart of Darkness on 9th February, 1899 and on
publication it had an impact as powerful as any long short story,
or short novel ever written - it is only 38,000 words. It quickly
became, and has remained, Conrad's most famous work and has been
regarded by many in America, if not elsewhere, as his greatest
work. Exciting and profound, lucid and bewildering, and written
with an exuberance which sometimes seems at odds with its subject
matter, it has influenced writers as diverse as T.S.Eliot, Graham
Greene, William Golding, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. It has also
inspired, among others, Orson Welles, who made two radio versions
the second of which, in 1945, depicted Kurtz as a forerunner of
Adolf Hitler, and Francis Ford Coppola who turned it into the film
Apocalypse Now. More critical attention has probably been paid to
it, per word, than to any other modern prose work. It has also
become a text about which, as the late Frank Kermode once
complained, interpreters feel licensed to say absolutely anything.
Why? What is it about Heart of Darkness that has captivated critics
and readers for so long and caused so many millions of words to be
written about it? And why has its peculiarly dark and intense
vision of life so frequently been misunderstood? Graham Bradshaw
provides the answers in this illuminating guide.
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