- Taschenbuch: 152 Seiten
- Verlag: Hesperus Pr; Auflage: New edition (15. Juli 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 184391008X
- ISBN-13: 978-1843910084
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,5 x 13,1 x 1,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 716.441 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Conrad's classic, widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the whole of English literature, published alongside }Diary Of Congo{. Foreword by A.N. Wilson.
Synopsis
Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a profound exploration into the human subconscious twinned with a terrifying portrayal of the dangers of imperialism. Seaman Marlow tells of his journey to the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the elusive Mr Kurtz. Away from civilisation as he knows it, he comes to reassess not only his own values, but also those of nature and of society. For in this heart of darkness, it is the terrifying face of human savagery that becomes most visible.
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In diesem Roman verarbeitete Joseph Conrad seine Erfahrungen als Expeditionsteilnehmer einer Fahrt auf dem Kongo. In dieser Ausgabe wird das Kongo-Tagebuch zusammen mit dem Up-river Book vorgelegt, etwas, was in dieser Form bisher noch niemals getan wurde.
Marlow, der archetypische Erzähler vieler von Conrads Erzählungen, sitzt in einem zunehmend dunkler werdenden Setting mit einer Reihe unbekannter Zuhörer und erzählt seine Geschichte. Er berichtigt, wie er durch familiäre Vermittlungen einen Posten in einer Handelsgesellschaft für Elfenbein bekommt und von dieser seinem eigenen Wunsch nach Reisen entsprechend zu mit einem Auftrag nach belgisch Kongo geschickt wird dort einen ihrer Zulieferer, mit dem der Kontakt wohl abgebrochen ist, ausfindig zu machen.
Während er sich an Bord der NELLIE mit einigen Pilgern, die den Wilden die Zivilisation bringen wollen den Kongo aufwärts begibt, merkt er, wie der Urwald, die Trommeln und auch die Eingeborenen bei aller Gefahr, die sie für ihn bedeuten, immer mehr tief in seiner Seele eine Saite anschlagen, die im Einklang mit der Wildnis um ihn herum vibriert. Mehr und mehr distanziert er sich innerlich von den Weißen auf seinem Boot und beginnt die Schwarzen in der Mannschaft, von denen einige Kannibalen sind, mit sympathischeren Augen zu betrachten.
Sprachlich ist dieses Buch an einigen Stellen ziemlich holprig, während es an anderen Stellen eine wunderbare atmosphärische Dichte hat. Wenn man sich vor dem Kauf des Buchs einen Eindruck von der zu Grunde liegenden Atmosphäre machen möchte, sollte man sich Apoca-lypse Now, Redux anschauen, der die Handlung von Heart of Darkness in den Vietnam-krieg verlegt. Ein anderes Werk, das ebenfalls eine gewisse Interpretation von Heart of Darkness nicht verleugnen kann und dem heutigen Leserinnen und Lesern wahrscheinlich zugänglich sein dürfte ist Nelson de Milles Die Mission, eines der besten Bücher des neuen Jahrtausends.
Marlow, der archetypische Erzähler vieler von Conrads Erzählungen, sitzt in einem zunehmend dunkler werdenden Setting mit einer Reihe unbekannter Zuhörer und erzählt seine Geschichte. Er berichtigt, wie er durch familiäre Vermittlungen einen Posten in einer Handelsgesellschaft für Elfenbein bekommt und von dieser seinem eigenen Wunsch nach Reisen entsprechend zu mit einem Auftrag nach belgisch Kongo geschickt wird dort einen ihrer Zulieferer, mit dem der Kontakt wohl abgebrochen ist, ausfindig zu machen.
Während er sich an Bord der NELLIE mit einigen Pilgern, die den Wilden die Zivilisation bringen wollen den Kongo aufwärts begibt, merkt er, wie der Urwald, die Trommeln und auch die Eingeborenen bei aller Gefahr, die sie für ihn bedeuten, immer mehr tief in seiner Seele eine Saite anschlagen, die im Einklang mit der Wildnis um ihn herum vibriert. Mehr und mehr distanziert er sich innerlich von den Weißen auf seinem Boot und beginnt die Schwarzen in der Mannschaft, von denen einige Kannibalen sind, mit sympathischeren Augen zu betrachten.
Sprachlich ist dieses Buch an einigen Stellen ziemlich holprig, während es an anderen Stellen eine wunderbare atmosphärische Dichte hat. Wenn man sich vor dem Kauf des Buchs einen Eindruck von der zu Grunde liegenden Atmosphäre machen möchte, sollte man sich Apoca-lypse Now, Redux anschauen, der die Handlung von Heart of Darkness in den Vietnam-krieg verlegt. Ein anderes Werk, das ebenfalls eine gewisse Interpretation von Heart of Darkness nicht verleugnen kann und dem heutigen Leserinnen und Lesern wahrscheinlich zugänglich sein dürfte ist Nelson de Milles Die Mission, eines der besten Bücher des neuen Jahrtausends.
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A masterpiece
25. Januar 2005
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So much has been written about 'Heart of Darkness' that it is hard to contribute to the discussion without immediately becoming redundant. But here is one point: part of the beauty of this masterpieces is that it - like all great works of art - functions on many levels. You can look at it as a criticism of Imperialism, as many have, although nowadays this traditional viewpoint seems stale. You may enjoy it for its masterful use of the English language; in fact, I can think of no better 'classical' tale form except perhaps that of Moby Dick. You may be startled by a short passage that strikes you as profound in its psychological richness. You can marvel at the strange character development where both Marlowe and Kurtz somehow remain elusive. And there is much more to ponder if you open your mind and simply allow the words to feed your imagination. Read it slowly, deliberately, and enjoy. It is doubtless one of the strangest works of English literature ever produced but perhaps also one of the best.
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"The mind of man is capable of anything..."
19. Februar 2004
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I read this book in my advanced English class my senior year and at first I was a bit unethusiastic. The introduction is a bit tedious and long describing in detail how Marlow decides to travel to Africa and how he gets there through his aunt's help. But by the second chapter I was intrigued and by the end of the novel it became my favourite book.
Joseph Conrad is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest writer of the English language and the funny thing is it is his third language (behind Polish and French). He decided to write "Heart of Darkness" in English because according to him English has words no other language has that he wanted to put in this novel.
The book starts out on a steamboat on the Thames River where the narrarator is talking with a number of other folks on board. Marlow sits (like Buddha) nearby and just starts talking. He then becomes the central speaker and through the narrarator, Marlow's story is told. As a young lad he saw the Congo River and he became transfixed with it and decided one day he would go to Africa. When he becomes an adult his aunt gets him a job in Africa at a Central Station where the head manager manages the smaller stations that are bringing in ivory. Here is where the story hooks the reader. Out in the middle of the jungle is a man by the name of Kurtz. This man is greatly admired and hated at the same time because he is bringing more ivory than all of the stations combined, yet he is the only one out there excluding the Africans he took with him. He sends back any man who has been an assistant to him and the only word out is that he was considering coming back but turned his steamboat around and stayed out in the jungle. Marlow's job is to find him.
The book is amazing and beautifully written. It is almost like a poem with outstanding word images and depth in the words. The theme of the novel is "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." In my opinion the novel is not so much on colonization in Africa as the theory of Conrad's that man is capable of anything and that when a person is out in the middle of nowhere they are capable of anything. Both Kurtz and Marlow are people to be admired, Marlow because he hates lies and the colonization and Kurtz because he always tells the truth. He knows what he did and that is why his last words are "The horror! The horror!" He is the horror.
The novel is a beautifully sculpted nightmare of what man is capable of. It is my favourite book and I think everyone should read it.
Joseph Conrad is considered one of the greatest, if not the greatest writer of the English language and the funny thing is it is his third language (behind Polish and French). He decided to write "Heart of Darkness" in English because according to him English has words no other language has that he wanted to put in this novel.
The book starts out on a steamboat on the Thames River where the narrarator is talking with a number of other folks on board. Marlow sits (like Buddha) nearby and just starts talking. He then becomes the central speaker and through the narrarator, Marlow's story is told. As a young lad he saw the Congo River and he became transfixed with it and decided one day he would go to Africa. When he becomes an adult his aunt gets him a job in Africa at a Central Station where the head manager manages the smaller stations that are bringing in ivory. Here is where the story hooks the reader. Out in the middle of the jungle is a man by the name of Kurtz. This man is greatly admired and hated at the same time because he is bringing more ivory than all of the stations combined, yet he is the only one out there excluding the Africans he took with him. He sends back any man who has been an assistant to him and the only word out is that he was considering coming back but turned his steamboat around and stayed out in the jungle. Marlow's job is to find him.
The book is amazing and beautifully written. It is almost like a poem with outstanding word images and depth in the words. The theme of the novel is "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." In my opinion the novel is not so much on colonization in Africa as the theory of Conrad's that man is capable of anything and that when a person is out in the middle of nowhere they are capable of anything. Both Kurtz and Marlow are people to be admired, Marlow because he hates lies and the colonization and Kurtz because he always tells the truth. He knows what he did and that is why his last words are "The horror! The horror!" He is the horror.
The novel is a beautifully sculpted nightmare of what man is capable of. It is my favourite book and I think everyone should read it.
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Into the vacuum poured the primal force of the cosmos.....
24. Januar 2004
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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 threshhold, 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 tranplanted westerners hiding in the shells of their technological terrors while lobbing shells into the outer world- without really being contaminated by it (or so they hoped.) 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. In other words, if they will not be "westernised", turned into copies of us, they must be obliterated. Preferably while making us a profit.
Kurtz was a strong man. He was ambitious and powerful. Perhaps he kept up the charade of "civilising" the natives and the land in the name "progress" longer than anyone else. He kept up these empty lies until he penetraded 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 it's highest sense, a totally natural man. Indeed he became a natural King, as the native tribes recognised. He and the land were truly one.
It is a mistake to judge Kurtz by the standards of the city of the dead. Kurtz and his warriors sweeping across the jungle, taking heads and ivory as trophies, was as natural as lions running down gazelles.... Far more natural than the hypocritical, brutal, soulless, enslavement of the coastal natives in the name of "civilisation".....
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