免费|英文公版书:《黑暗的心》约瑟夫·康拉德

免费|英文公版书:《黑暗的心》约瑟夫·康拉德

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《黑暗之心》是约瑟夫·康拉德的一篇中篇小说,最初于1899年以三部分系列的形式在《布莱克伍德杂志》上发表,后于1902年作为书的一部分出版。它被广泛认为是英国文学的重要作品,是西方文学经典的一部分。这个故事复杂地探讨了帝国主义、殖民主义和人性的深处,由查尔斯·马洛叙述,他回忆自己乘坐刚果河进入非洲心脏地带刚果自由邦,去寻找库尔兹,一个神秘的象牙贸易商,他在当地居民中获得了类似神的权力。

这篇中篇小说分为三部分,最初是连载出版的。以下是其内容的简要概述:

•第一部分:马洛接受了一个与比利时贸易公司一起进入非洲内陆的河船船长的工作。当他等待自己的船只修理时,他听说了库尔兹先生,一个因获取象牙而享有杰出声望的代理人。
•第二部分:马洛驾驶蒸汽船向上游航行,途中遇到了各个站点和殖民代理人。这段旅程暴露了殖民剥削的残酷和非人性。马洛对于会见库尔兹变得越来越着迷,据说库尔兹的健康状况正在恶化。
•第三部分:马洛最终到达库尔兹的内部站点,发现库尔兹已经在当地部落中确立了自己的神一般的地位,他们因他使用暴力和恐吓而敬畏他。库尔兹的健康确实在恶化,马洛了解到他对帝国主义企业的幻灭和他陷入疯狂。马洛带库尔兹返回河下游,库尔兹在去世前发出了他的遗言:“这恐怖!这恐怖!”马洛回到欧洲,由于经历而变得幻灭,对曾经持有的帝国主义理想感到怀疑。

《黑暗之心》是对帝国主义的深刻批评,是对人性黑暗角落、权力和贪婪腐蚀力量以及文明薄弱外衣的复杂研究。康拉德使用的含糊和密集的语言,以及框架叙事技巧,使得这篇中篇小说成为文学学者大量研究和辩论的对象。

Heart of Darkness (version 2)
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters: the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the Europeans' cruel treatment of the African natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil. Although Conrad does not give the name of the river, at the time of writing the Congo Free State, the location of the large and important Congo River, was a private colony of Belgium's King Leopold II. In the story, Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver. However, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization, in a cover-up. Kurtz has a reputation throughout the region.
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