admin reviewed Heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad (Everyman's library ;)
Review of 'Heart of darkness' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Even though this book is fairly short (my edition was just a little over 100 pages), this took me a shockingly long time to read. Marlow is a fairly long-winded narrator, which is probably my main complaint about this novel. I had to deliberately slow down my reading and re-read sections for it to really click in my head. I had the similar troubles reading this book in my high school English class. I have no idea how I managed to write an essay on a book I never read but at least six years later I finally finished reading it. Overall, a pretty decent read.
Book Information
HEART OF DARKNESS
9780679428015
Heart of Darkness gyrew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailor's …
Even though this book is fairly short (my edition was just a little over 100 pages), this took me a shockingly long time to read. Marlow is a fairly long-winded narrator, which is probably my main complaint about this novel. I had to deliberately slow down my reading and re-read sections for it to really click in my head. I had the similar troubles reading this book in my high school English class. I have no idea how I managed to write an essay on a book I never read but at least six years later I finally finished reading it. Overall, a pretty decent read.
Book Information
HEART OF DARKNESS
9780679428015
Heart of Darkness gyrew out of a journey Joseph Conrad took up the Congo River; the verisimilitude that the great novelist thereby brought to his most famous tale everywhere enhances its dense and shattering power.
Apparently a sailor's yarn, it is in fact a grim parody of the adventure the which the narrator, Marlow, travels deep into the heart of the Congo where he encounters the crazed idealist Kurtz and discovers that the relative values of the civilized and the primitive are not what they seem. Heart of Darkness is a model of economic storytelling, an indictment of the inner and outer turmoil caused by the European imperial misadventure, and a piercing account of the fragility of the human soul.
