Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Author: Joseph Conrad
Type: Fiction
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Unlike most people out there, I love reading, so when my World Lit. teacher assigned us Heart of Darkness, I didn't complained or anything. Damn was I disappointed.
I gotta admit, this is one tough book to read, not necessarily because of the vocabulary but more because of Conrad's style of writing. This guy really loved the work of impressionist painters such Monet or Renoir and had the dumb idea of applying it's concept in a novel. For those of you that are ignorant and that have never seen any paintings from Impressionist artists, just picture something very blurry and confusing. Well, Conrad's work is blurry and confusing. He jumps from topic to another, moving back and forth in times and making enough assertions that I was completely lost after a couple of paragraphs.
Passed the surprise of having to read 10 times the same sentence before understanding it, we discover a story with a very thin plot line. Marlowe is an Englishman who got hired by the Imperialistic Belgium government. He is then sent on a boat that trades Ivory along the Congo River and witnesses the slow deprecation of civilization as he goes deeper into Africa. I was afflicted by the blatant racism that you could feel on every description of the native Africans. To the author, who pretends to be anti-colonialism, Africans are nothing more than animals who do things without any knowledge of it. It's kinda sad because this novel is considered by many Western scholars as being in the top ten fiction book ever.
Anyway, to make it short, it was mildly entertaining (the only thing fun about it is that the movie Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness) and the writing was mediocre. If you too are assigned this book, don't bother reading it and check out the Spark Notes.
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