Heart of Darkness
Usually a picture is the arrangement of pigment on some background made invisible by the pigments. The artist's reality is all we see. But our illustrator, Robert Shore, has correctly seen the tale as a sea-story, even though much of it takes place on land, and has chosen as a background a...
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Usually a picture is the arrangement of pigment on some background made invisible by the pigments. The artist's reality is all we see. But our illustrator, Robert Shore, has correctly seen the tale as a sea-story, even though much of it takes place on land, and has chosen as a background a material which, in his hands, sets the mood for the pictures and even sometimes beco
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Format: Hardcover
ASIN: B00Y0JAMXC
Publisher: Heritage Press
Pages no: 117
Edition language: English
There's nothing wrong with a bit of baggy. And certainly there's little or nothing 19th century without that touch of cellulite. And that's mostly where all the masterpieces live. No waste. But no bounty either. Conrad's prose is too parsimonious for anything to get very close to masterpiece status....
I did not get this one at all. Well, more or less. The setting and atmosphere is excellently done and chilling. The whole vibe of everyone being a bit skewed from right in the head persistent and disturbing. The content on colonization, "civilizing" other cultures, and the measure of human vs sava...
Strange story, very well told, centred on unfolding the character of the enigmatic Kurtz who remained enigmatic. No particular plot so unsatisfying.
I struggled with this book for months. At times, I was loathe to continue with it, and would put the book aside for weeks at a time. But I persisted, if only because I had read about 30 years ago another work of Joseph Conrad whose setting was the Dutch East Indies. And for me, Joseph Conrad (a Pole...
C'est impossible. Nous vivons comme nous rêvons - seuls...
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