Heart of Darkness was published in three monthly instalments in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in February, March and April of 1899. (The Victorian Web has an essay describing the other articles which Heart of Darkness appeared among.) The final text was still divided into three equal sections when it was published in book form in 1902. Heart of […]
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Posted by Simon on September 19, 2012
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Conrad’s style (3) the Nihilist worldview
In the previous post on Conrad’s style I looked at his use of repetition, trying to analyse or list out the different ways Conrad uses repetition to amplify and embellish his prose. In this post, I look at his bigger, structural use of repetition – and something of what that tells us about his overall […]
Posted by Simon on September 15, 2012
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Conrad’s style (2) Repetition
The fear and fascination, the inspiration and the wonder of death—of death near, unavoidable, and unseen, soothed the unrest of his race and stirred the most indistinct, the most intimate of his thoughts. The ever-ready suspicion of evil, the gnawing suspicion that lurks in our hearts, flowed out into the stillness round him—into the stillness […]
Posted by Simon on September 15, 2012
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Conrad’s style (1) Decadence and foreignness
The narrow creek was like a ditch: tortuous, fabulously deep; filled with gloom under the thin strip of pure and shining blue of the heaven. Immense trees soared up, invisible behind the festooned draperies of creepers. Here and there, near the glistening blackness of the water, a twisted root of some tall tree showed amongst […]
Posted by Simon on September 14, 2012
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An Outcast of The Islands by Joseph Conrad (1896)
Joseph Conrad followed his 1895 debut, Almayer’s Folly, with a prequel, An Outcast of the Islands. This longer, more substantial novel (295 pages to Almayer’s slender 167) is also set in an isolated backwater of the Malayan archipelago, and features largely the same characters, filling in a lot of Almayer’s backstory, but from a different […]
Posted by Simon on September 8, 2012
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Almayer’s Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad (1895)
Reading Joseph Conrad after Edgar Rice Burroughs is like leaving a cheap disco and walking into a quiet church. Or maybe an ornate eastern temple… You can feel the civilisation, the depth and human dignity, pouring through every cell in your body… Almayer’s Folly was Conrad’s first novel. Born in 1857 to Polish parents in a […]
Posted by Simon on September 5, 2012
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