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Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad wrote <anchor>Heart of Darkness</anchor> in 1899. In his classic book, Conrad criticizes British colonialism and shows how humans can rationalize anything.
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"Goonetilleke's edition does much to restore the context \[in which Conrad was writing\] and begins with a helpful summary of Congo history. The edition contains excerpts from some of the best writers in English on conditions in the Congo Free State." (The Times Literary Supplement )

"This edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book's aesthetic and philosophical challenges, gives an excitingly useful chronology of the Congo with excerpts from Congo exploration literature, and deftly anticipates issues that discussion of the text will raise." (David Leon Higdon Conradiana )

"EvenhandedÃ¢Â Â¦it connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent." (Harper's Magazine )

"\[This edition is\] far better than anything else on the market today." --Craig Keating

"Goonetilleke's edition does much to restore the context \[in which Conrad was writing\] and begins with a helpful summary of Congo history. The edition contains excerpts from some of the best writers in English on conditions in the Congo Free State." (The Times Literary Supplement )

"This edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book's aesthetic and philosophical challenges, gives an excitingly useful chronology of the Congo with excerpts from Congo exploration literature, and deftly anticipates issues that discussion of the text will raise." (David Leon Higdon Conradiana )

"EvenhandedÃ¢Â Â¦it connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent." (Harper's Magazine )

"\[This edition is\] far better than anything else on the market today." (Craig Keating ) --Craig Keating

"Goonetilleke's edition does much to restore the context \[in which Conrad was writing\] and begins with a helpful summary of Congo history. The edition contains excerpts from some of the best writers in English on conditions in the Congo Free State." (The Times Literary Supplement )

"This edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book's aesthetic and philosophical challenges, gives an excitingly useful chronology of the Congo with excerpts from Congo exploration literature, and deftly anticipates issues that discussion of the text will raise." (David Leon Higdon Conradiana )

"Evenhandedâ ¦it connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent." (Harper's Magazine )

"\[This edition is\] far better than anything else on the market today." (Craig Keating ) --Craig Keating

"Goonetilleke's edition does much to restore the context \[in which Conrad was writing\] and begins with a helpful summary of Congo history. The edition contains excerpts from some of the best writers in English on conditions in the Congo Free State." (The Times Literary Supplement )

"This edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book's aesthetic and philosophical challenges, gives an excitingly useful chronology of the Congo with excerpts from Congo exploration literature, and deftly anticipates issues that discussion of the text will raise." (David Leon Higdon Conradiana )

"Evenhanded…it connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent." (Harper's Magazine )

"\[This edition is\] far better than anything else on the market today." (Craig Keating ) --Craig Keating

"Goonetilleke's edition does much to restore the context \[in which Conrad was writing\] and begins with a helpful summary of Congo history. The edition contains excerpts from some of the best writers in English on conditions in the Congo Free State." (The Times Literary Supplement )

"This edition offers a bold and intelligent introduction to the book's aesthetic and philosophical challenges, gives an excitingly useful chronology of the Congo with excerpts from Congo exploration literature, and deftly anticipates issues that discussion of the text will raise." (David Leon Higdon Conradiana )

"Evenhanded…it connects Conrad palpably to the European colonization of the continent." (Harper's Magazine )

"\[This edition is\] far better than anything else on the market today." (Craig Keating ) --Craig Keating

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A prolific author of novels and short stories, Joseph Conrad is best known for his masterpiece Heart of Darkness, inspired by his visit to the Congo three years earlier. Tim Butcher is the author of Blood River.

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When Kurtz exclaims "The Horror! The Horror!" it is in the same sense that we would also cry out if suddenly faced with the unshielded countenance of God. At the threshold, just before we were either consumed, or absorbed, this too would be our cry.

This most remarkable of books is a dissection of the Western psyche. We start with the capital city of the living dead in Europe itself. This is a land of sleepwalkers who have never awakened- they live out their lives spinning castles in the air that ultimately mean nothing. This is the state of the modern Western mind. Theory and profit, but no soul. On the journey down the African coast we encounter the European battleship antiseptically shelling the coast. These are transplanted westerners hiding in the shells of their technological terrors while lobbing shells into the outer world- without really being contaminated by it. Then we reach the coast, where the high ideals preached in Europe are more and more obviously abandoned the farther inland one travels. When the land and the natives become "difficult", pure force and brutality are used to overcome and destroy.

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Kurtz was a strong man. He was ambitious and powerful. Perhaps he kept up the charade of "civilizing" the natives and the land in the name "progress" longer than anyone else. He kept up these empty lies until he penetrated to the deepest core of the primeval jungle. And then, this hollow shell of ideals and greed imploded. You see, as Conrad points out, Kurtz was fundamentally hollow. Yet Kurtz didn't just die, he was too strong. Instead, into that vacuum rushed the primal force itself. Kurtz became what he hated the most- he became the soul of the jungle- because he had none of his own. He became an "animal" in its highest sense, a totally natural man. Indeed he became a natural King, as the native tribes recognized. He and the land were truly one.

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I had seen this title and Conrad's name coined constantly through other mediums before I actually decided to read this. I wasn't really pressed on until I came across a lecture by Chinua Achebe, an African author, who claimed that Heart of Darkness and Conrad were racist. Nothing like some controversy to inadvertently give attention to what your actually protesting eh? His views on Conrad though reminded me of my own on Mark Twain though. I don't like Twain, I think he was a racist despite being hailed constantly by English teachers I've known. I would have thought the same if I hadn't come across his views on American Indians. He called us "scum of the earth" and other things. Statements he never retracted apparently. It didn't stop me from reading Twain which I have done but It didn't impress me. So I can actually somewhat understand Achebe's qualms but there turned out to be more to the Heart of Darkness than he would have some believe.

From what I understand this short work is heavily based on Conrad's own experiences from what he saw in the Congo Free State, something that would go on to effect his health and stability as it does for the character of the book Marlow. Marlow is a young man from England. Hungry for adventure on a steam boat in the dark continent. He manages to land a job with a company that is based on the Congo. So now the captain of his own tug boat he goes into Africa only to bare witness to the acts of the corporation he works for. Lines of naked bony natives in chains are led into mine shafts by uniformed men, massive tracts of the jungle are slashed and burned for bits of ivory, while starving slaves are left to die on the banks of the river. If this is progress then humanity is doomed it seems. But Marlow isn't there to gawk instead he's sent down river to track down and find a company agent, Mr Kurtz.

Kurtz seems to be a golden boy of the company. His superiors praise him, so does his family and friends. He is like the embodiment of European ideals, superior in every way to the savages but as Marlowe goes down the river and further into the dark jungles he learns more about this man and his troubling nature. Despite his superior stock and civilized morals Kurtz had quite literally "gone native". It can be looked at in various ways. A disturbing indictment of greed and imperialism. A look at the self destructive nature of humanity or civilization in general. While the book was good in the respects of allegory its still very archaic. His writing can drag in certain parts and feels pretty dated. But it's Conrad's depictions of the natives stands out above all of them. They have almost no actual culture, they prance around fires with grass skirts and bones in their noses; and the description of the witch woman feels like it was torn right out of a pulp magazine. Still though I think the themes of the book and overall message trump these bits but some may just find them distasteful.

In the end I actually liked Heart of Darkness but it definitely is racist in some parts. Conrad may have been disgusted with the Congo Free State, he may have been against imperialism, but he still saw the Africans as a lesser people. Still one can't really indict a man on views that were otherwise very common in his time. Compared to others from the same period Conrad was definitely a progressive. The book is pretty powerful and it had a strong message of anti-imperialism before it was beaten to death later on. In the end it's all a matter of taste. I liked it, its well written, not long, and it may dwell in the back of your head for a while. It left me wondering whether or not Kurtz's final message "exterminate the brutes" was meant for the natives or mankind in general.

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