Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary
Ed. with an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles. Ed. w. Notes by Robert Hampson
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Herz der Finsternis" beschreibt die letzte Reise Joseph Conrads, die er ins Innere Afrikas unternahm, ein Abenteuer, das ums Haar tödlich ausgegangen wäre.
"Es ist der Bericht eines im wachen Leben erlittenen Albs, den Conrad nur mit Glück und für sein...
"Es ist der Bericht eines im wachen Leben erlittenen Albs, den Conrad nur mit Glück und für sein...
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"Herz der Finsternis" beschreibt die letzte Reise Joseph Conrads, die er ins Innere Afrikas unternahm, ein Abenteuer, das ums Haar tödlich ausgegangen wäre.
"Es ist der Bericht eines im wachen Leben erlittenen Albs, den Conrad nur mit Glück und für sein restliches Leben angeschlagen überstand." Urs Widmer
"Es ist der Bericht eines im wachen Leben erlittenen Albs, den Conrad nur mit Glück und für sein restliches Leben angeschlagen überstand." Urs Widmer
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Joseph Conrad's enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadHeart of Darkness is the thrilling tale of Marlow, a seaman and wanderer recounting his physical and psychological journey in search of the infamous ivory trader Kurtz. Traveling upriver into the heart of the African continent, he gradually becomes obsessed by this enigmatic, wraith-like figure. Marlow's discovery of how Kurtz has gained his position of power over the local people involves him in a radical questioning, not only of his own nature and values, but of those that underpin Western civilization itself. This edition also includes Conrad's Congo Diary, a glossary, and an introduction discussing the author's experiences of Africa, critical responses, and the novel's symbolic complexities.
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IntroductionMention the name of Joseph Conrad and the answering response will commonly invoke his celebrated African novella of 1899, Heart of Darkness . If the work has acquired an iconic status comparable to that of Edvard Munch s painting The Scream (1893), its title has by contrast become something of a tired cliché in being so repeatedly used by newspaper headline-makers. Conrad, who modestly hoped that the work might have a continuing vibration , would have been astonished by these contemporary reverberations.
The story s emergence as a twentieth-century classic forms a first stage in the history of its remarkable after-life. A key moment arrived with T. S. Eliot s use of a fragment from Heart of Darkness as an epigraph to his poem, The Hollow Men (1925). Eliot s epigraph signals a temporary kinship and establishes a bridge between two works, but it also probably signifies a more intangible sense of indebtedness -- to Conrad as an important founder-member of a tradition of British Modernist writing.
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The story s major re-discovery dates from the 1950s when its apocalyptic symbolism and existentialist uncertainty seem to have entered the collective consciousness of a generation who lived through the Second World War or were coming to terms with its legacy. As one critic of the time put it, the story had become a Pilgrim s Progress for our pessimistic and psychologizing age (Guerard, p. 33). Its more recent impact has been equally dramatic, if more controversial. Now standing at the centre of a wider contemporary debate about race, imperialism and feminism, its æsthetic dimensions and experimental character have almost been left behind. It has acquired the character of an awkward problem-novel, a standard text in the classroom and -- for better or worse -- a litmus-test for a variety of theoretical preoccupations. As a modern quest parable translated into many languages, it has simultaneously had a powerful generative effect upon twentieth-century writers and film-makers, inspiring emulations, adaptations and counter-versions.
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Conrad s direct and indirect engagement with things African has a long pre-history. It extends as far back as his childhood, when the young Pole pored over maps of the continent, devoured tales of the first European explorers in Africa and vicariously shared the perils of Dr Livingstone s travels. Like all dreams of heroic adventure, this one was destined to meet with a rude awakening. In 1890, towards the end of his career as a merchant seaman, the thirty-three-year-old Conrad signed a long-term contract to work for a Belgian company in the Congo Free State. The country he entered had since 1885 been the personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium who, under the guise of a philanthropic concern to bring light to the dark continent, was brutally engaged in what Conrad later described as the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience and geographical exploration (Last Essays, p. 17).
Conrad s growing desire to return to Europe was unexpectedly realized when he suffered a physical breakdown: plagued with the after-effects of dysentery and malaria, he ended his stay after seven months, returned to a period of hospitalization in London and suffered a legacy of ill-health for the rest of his life. His first-hand encounter with the effects of Leopold s rule in the Congo almost certainly left him with deeper scars: according to a close friend, the episode formed the turning-point in his mental life , shaped his transformation from a sailor to a writer and swept away the generous illusions of his youth (Garnett, p. xii).
One of the products of this period
The story s major re-discovery dates from the 1950s when its apocalyptic symbolism and existentialist uncertainty seem to have entered the collective consciousness of a generation who lived through the Second World War or were coming to terms with its legacy. As one critic of the time put it, the story had become a Pilgrim s Progress for our pessimistic and psychologizing age (Guerard, p. 33). Its more recent impact has been equally dramatic, if more controversial. Now standing at the centre of a wider contemporary debate about race, imperialism and feminism, its æsthetic dimensions and experimental character have almost been left behind. It has acquired the character of an awkward problem-novel, a standard text in the classroom and -- for better or worse -- a litmus-test for a variety of theoretical preoccupations. As a modern quest parable translated into many languages, it has simultaneously had a powerful generative effect upon twentieth-century writers and film-makers, inspiring emulations, adaptations and counter-versions.
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Conrad s direct and indirect engagement with things African has a long pre-history. It extends as far back as his childhood, when the young Pole pored over maps of the continent, devoured tales of the first European explorers in Africa and vicariously shared the perils of Dr Livingstone s travels. Like all dreams of heroic adventure, this one was destined to meet with a rude awakening. In 1890, towards the end of his career as a merchant seaman, the thirty-three-year-old Conrad signed a long-term contract to work for a Belgian company in the Congo Free State. The country he entered had since 1885 been the personal possession of King Leopold II of Belgium who, under the guise of a philanthropic concern to bring light to the dark continent, was brutally engaged in what Conrad later described as the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience and geographical exploration (Last Essays, p. 17).
Conrad s growing desire to return to Europe was unexpectedly realized when he suffered a physical breakdown: plagued with the after-effects of dysentery and malaria, he ended his stay after seven months, returned to a period of hospitalization in London and suffered a legacy of ill-health for the rest of his life. His first-hand encounter with the effects of Leopold s rule in the Congo almost certainly left him with deeper scars: according to a close friend, the episode formed the turning-point in his mental life , shaped his transformation from a sailor to a writer and swept away the generous illusions of his youth (Garnett, p. xii).
One of the products of this period
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Autoren-Porträt von Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (originally Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski) was born in the Ukraine in 1857 and grew up under Tsarist autocracy. In 1896 he settled in Kent, where he produced within fifteen years such modern classics as Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. He continued to write until his death in 1924. Today Conrad is generally regarded as one of the greatest writers of fiction in English—his third language.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joseph Conrad
- 2007, Rev. ed., XLVII, 192 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Owen Knowles, Robert Hampson, J. H. Stape
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141441674
- ISBN-13: 9780141441672
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.02.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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