قلب تاریکی: و منتخبی از دفتر خاطرات کنگو

Librarians note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 037575377X here.With an Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H.L. Mencken, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chiua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchHeart of Darkness, which appeared at the very beginning of our century, was a Cassandra cry announcing the end of Victorian Europe, on the verge of transforming itself into the Europe of violence, wrote the critic Czeslaw Milosz. Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this centurys most enduring--and harrowing--works of fiction. Written several years after Conrads 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 Conrads Congo Diary of 1890--the first notes, in effect, for the novel which was composed at the end of that decade.Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad, His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life.