Jądro ciemności - Joseph Conrad, Patrycja Jabłońska • BookLikes (ISBN:9788375171136)

Jądro ciemności

by: Joseph Conrad (author) Patrycja Jabłońska (translator)

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Belgijskie Kongo. Biali koloniści bezlitośnie wykorzystują rdzennych mieszkańców Czarnego Lądu. Jednym z nich jest Kurtz - człowiek budzący respekt i szacunek, w rzeczywistości potwór, dla którego czarni mieszkańcy Afryki to bestie zasługujące jedynie na unicestwienie. Jądro ciemności, które nosi w sobie każdy z nas, w tym opowiadaniu poznaje Marlow, człowiek, dla którego wyprawa do kolonii staje się wielką podróżą poza czas i przestrzeń, w najciemniejsze zakamarki ludzkiej natury...

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Format: papier

ISBN: 9788375171136

Publish date: 2010

Publisher: Greg

Pages no: 96

Edition language: Polski

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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it

6 years ago

http://antao.booklikes.com Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios 3.0 Baggy Literature: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

text Baggy Literature: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

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....

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The better to see you, my dear rated it

6 years ago

http://Zanahoria.booklikes.com The better to see you, my dear 2.5 Whut?

text Whut?

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...

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JB's Reading Life rated it

7 years ago

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text Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary

Strange story, very well told, centred on unfolding the character of the enigmatic Kurtz who remained enigmatic. No particular plot so unsatisfying.

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KOMET rated it

7 years ago

http://KOMET.booklikes.com KOMET 1.5 LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS

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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...

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