Heart of Darkness - and Selected Short Fiction

Joseph Conrad

Penguin

2012

111 páginas

3h 42m

ISBN-13: 9780241956809

Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey into the heart of Africa. His goal is the troubled European ivory-trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a god-like figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labors further upriver, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and in civilization crumbling.

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.