Heart of Darkness
Author: Joseph Conrad
Translator: Sang-ok Lee
Publisher: Minumsa
200 pages.
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About This Book
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
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