Total Page : 544
Publisher : W W Norton Company
Publication Date : 2005 12 13
>> What are we and who will we become in a foreign place
Somehow it seems to be a presumptous undertaking to write a review of such a monumental work The narrative is short The writer Marlow is sent to the inner Congo to find a Mr Kurtz a legendary hunter of ivory and to bring him back or take up his position
The atmosphere grows increasingly oppressive from the start in Belgium where something seems to have been left unsaid to the long trip up the Congo through places of heartbreaking emptiness emptiness of the soul
Finally the meeting with the famed Kurtz which does not really bring spiritual relief because Kurtz now is neither the expected demon nor the misunderstood philanthropist He simply is a broken man And his notes read by Marlow highlight the ambiguity of his and our characters And that is why Marlow cannot get over this experience He knows that deep within himself there is also a Kurtz lurking
>> Amazing
The text of the story itself is truly fantastic deeply psychological and probing The Norton edition is great because it has some fantastic context essays and other sources that really frame Conrad s work nicely This is well worth it
>> A study of man
It is well written The idea of a storyteller in the story is not unique but very effective We could ponder over the word darkness for quite some time The best way to ponder is with Cliff s Notes Personally I wanted him to get on with it I guess I was a little impatient for the action and the conclusion If it hadn t been for cliff notes I would have missed haft the things he was implying
A merchant company is missing an agent Kurtz and Marlowe must find him Traveling though harsher environments than he imagined possible he may have found what he was seeking As with many of this type of epic the physical distance or direction is not as important then the transformation it plays on ones soul
I missed this book somehow in school The reason I started to read this book before actually I actually became immersed in it was to see how close it came to the movie No not the movie you are thinking of Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death 1988 The film was shot primarily in the avocado groves maintained by the University of California at Riverside UCR which the university uses for horticultural experiments Adrienne Barbeau is Dr Kurtz
The horror the horror
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
