Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (EBook, 2009, The Floating Press)
E-book
English language
Published April 11, 2009 by The Floating Press.
Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's disturbing novella recounted by the itinerant captain Marlow sent to find and bring home the shadowy and inscrutable Captain Kurtz. Marlow and his men follow a river deep into a jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" of Africa looking for Kurtz, an unhinged leader of an isolated trading station. This highly symbolic psychological drama was the founding myth for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 movie Apocalypse Now.
Also one of the most racist works of literature I've ever read. I wrote a whole paper about how it can and should still be appreciated as a work of art, while still being able to recognize it's main horrible flaw.
