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Cookie akzeptierenJoseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
- Bibliologica Press
- 2020
- Taschenbuch
- 110 Seiten
- ISBN 9780648509332
The Polish-born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski wrote under the pseudonym of Joseph Conard; an Anglicized derivative of his first and second middle names. He was born in what is now Ukraine on December 3, 1857, but later in life became fluent in the English language, and arguably one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. Having spent his early years as a merchant sailor, it comes as no surprise that he chose to write about a seafaring subject. However, his novella "Heart of Darkness" was more than a fictional recollection of a steamboat's trip up the Congo River in what was then the Congo Free State. Conrad introduces his readers to Charles Marlow, the story's narrator, who recounts the tale of Kurtz, a successful Congo ivory trader. In doing
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