Heart of Darkness(黑暗之心)
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品牌: Joseph Conrad
基本信息·出版社：W. W. Norton & Company
·页码：420 页
·出版日期：1987年
·ISBN：0393955524
·条形码：9780393955521
·装帧：其他
·正文语种：英语
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内容简介A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness (1902) exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.Joyce Carol Oates on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness:"Heart of Darkness has had an influence that goes beyond the specifically literary. This parable of a man's 'heart of darkness' dramatized in the alleged 'Dark Continent' of Africa transcended its late Victorian era to acquire the stature of one of the great, if troubling, visionary works of western civilization."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke is Senior Professor of English at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and former Chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. His other books include "Joseph Conrad: Beyond Culture and Background" (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990) and "Salman Rushdie" (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
媒体推荐书评
FromAudioFile
In HEART OF DARKNESS, Marlow, the narrator, undertakes both an outer and an inner journey. The outer journey takes him into the heart of Africa, where he encounters representatives of every colonial stripe. Performing the work instead of simply reading it, Scott Brick emphasizes this aspect of Conrad''s classic, clearly conveying class differences and a range of foreign accents, as well as pidgin. Conrad''s prose is dense and complex, but Brick delivers it smoothly and gracefully. However, Marlow''s inner journey--during which he confronts the mysterious Mr. Kurtz--remains too distant and intellectualized to fully capture the emotional charge of the moment. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine--Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The Times Literary Supplement
Goonetilleke''s edition does much to restore the context (in which Conrad was writing)...--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
David Leon Highdon, General Editor, Conradia, 1973-1995
"this edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book''s aesthetics and philosophical challenges ... and deftly anticipates issues..."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Harper''s Magazine
"evenhanded... it connects Conrad palpably t the European colonization of the continent."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Craig Keating, Lankara College
"(this edition is) far better than anything else on the market today."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
ARIEL
"This Broadview edition is well suited for our times and appropriate for a politically conscious and diverse readership."--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
The Times Literary Supplement
Goonetilleke''s edition does much to restore the context (in which Conrad was writing) ...--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
David Leon Higdon, General Editor, Conradiana, 1973-1995
...this edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book''s aesthetic and philosophical challenges ... and deftly anticipates issues ...--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Harper''s Magazine
evenhanded ... in connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Craig Keating, Langara College
(this edition is) far better thany anything else on the market today.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature
This Broadview edition is well suited for our times and appropriate for a politically conscious and divers readership.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
编辑推荐Review
Novella by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1902 with the story "Youth" and thereafter published separately. The story reflects the physical and psychological shock Conrad himself experienced in 1890, when he worked briefly in the Belgian Congo. The narrator, Marlow, describes a journey he took on an African river. Assigned by an ivory company to take command of a cargo boat stranded in the interior, Marlow makes his way through the treacherous forest, witnessing the brutalization of the natives by white traders and hearing tantalizing stories of a Mr. Kurtz, the company's most successful representative. He reaches Kurtz's compound in a remote outpost only to see a row of human heads mounted on poles. In this alien context, unbound by the strictures of his own culture, Kurtz has exchanged his soul for a bloody sovereignty, but a mortal illness is bringing his reign of terror to a close. As Marlow transports him downriver, Kurtz delivers an arrogant and empty explanation of his deeds as a visionary quest. To the narrator Kurtz's dying words, "The horror! The horror!" represent despair at the encounter with human depravity--the heart of darkness. --The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
