Heart of Darkness is a very famous novel by Joseph Conrad.It was first published in 1899 in serial form in London''s Blackwood''s
Magazine which is
a popular journal of its day. The work was well received by a somewhat puzzled Victorian audience. It is one of the best short novels written in English. At the time of its writing (1890), the Polish-born Conrad had become a naturalized British citizen,he mastered the English language and served for ten years in the British merchant marines.He achieved the rank of captain, and traveled to Asia, Australia, India, and Africa. Heart of Darknessis based on Conrad''s personal experience of the Congo region of West Africa. Conrad was infact sent up the Congo River to an inner station to rescue a company agent-not named Kurtz but Georges-Antoine Klein-who died a few days later aboard ship. The story is told in the words of Charlie Marlow who was a seaman, and filtered through the thoughts of an unidentified listening
narrator. It is on one level about a voyage into the heart of the Belgian Congo, and on another about the Journey into the soul of man. In 1902, Heart of Darknesswas published in a separate volume along with two other stories by Conrad. Many critics consider the book a
literary bridge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and a forerunner both of modem literary techniques and approaches to the theme of the ambiguous nature of truth, evil, and morality. By presenting the reader with a clearly unreliable narrator whose interpretation of events is often open to question, Conrad forces the reader to take an active part in the story''s construction and to see and feel its events for him—or herself
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