Heart of Darkness -

Joseph Conrad

Modern Library

2000

176 páginas

5h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780375753770

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding prose, Heart of Darkness is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad's Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.

Resenhas (19)

2.5 (Razoável)

Suspense. É a história de um explorador corrompido pela ganância (ainda que o motivo seja razoável). Tirando a descrição que se faz de Kurtz, nenhum personagem tem muita profundidade. Sem entrar no detalhe da escrita ser bem racista.