Heart of Darkness: Joseph Conrad. (World's Classics) - Softcover

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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is one of the most important novelas of English literature in the 20th century.

Aboard the Nellie, anchored in the River Thames near Gravesend, England, Charles Marlow tells his fellow sailors about the events that led to his appointment as captain of a river steamboat for an Belgian trading company. Marlow travels up the Congo to meet the first-class agent Mr. Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. On his journey Marlow encounters widespread inefficiency and brutality in the Company’s stations. The native inhabitants have been forced into the Company’s service. They suffer terribly from overwork and ill treatment at the hands of the Company’s agents. In the depths of the jungle he discovers colonial insanity, racism and the evil. His journey is a journey into the abysses of the civilized world.

The story was written in the core period of imperialism and is one of the hundred best English novels of the twentieth century. Many movies like “Apokalyse Now” by Francis Ford Coppola are inspired by this novela. The philosopher Hannah Arendt used this famous story as a parable to totalitarianism and racial mania: “Joseph Conrad‘s story ‚Heart of Darkness‘ is in any case suitable to brighten this background experience, as the relevant historical or political or ethnological literature.”

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