Heart of Darkness thread?
Heart of Darkness thread.
My dark is heartness senapi
>>7321024
what are conrads best works?
I still can't believe English wasn't Conrad's first language.
>>7321058
Nigger of the Narcissus
My favorite novel. It's insane how much complexity Conrad packs into such a short work.
>>7321024
Am I a pleb without taste for good literature if I don't know why this is considered such a great book?
I started it about a month ago and still haven't finished it. and every day someone posts about it and it makes me feel like such a lazy little shit
>dat image of the ship firing into the entire continent of Africa
>dat image of the devil like savage in front of the burning trading camp
Fucking great
>>7321062
polish literature > other literatures
easy
bumpy
>>7321024
boring and shallow as fuck
Heart of Darkness is a good book and I like it.
>>7321024
A whole thread dedicated to Heart of Darkness? You serious Senpai?
>>7321977
So much more to Conrad to limit it to one tale.
>>7321414
Just get some coffee/tea and finish it off in one go. It isn't insurmountable.
>>7321414
Conrad can be tough with a short attention span.
>>7321024
Purple prose: the book
>>7322542
There's so much in the book that seems insignificant or boring, but has so much substance. Like when Marlowe is waiting for his steamer to be repaired
Why should I care about a writer of books for boys?
>>7322548
>100 page novella: the book
>purple prose
choose one fajet
He's a low tier writer desu, read a real expert professional like Henry James or Herman Melville desu
>>7322548
‘I heard a light sigh and then my heart stood still, stopped
dead short by an exulting and terrible cry, by the cry of in
-
conceivable triumph and of unspeakable pain. ‘I knew it—I
was sure!’ ... She knew. She was sure. I heard her weeping;
she had hidden her face in her hands. It seemed to me that
the house would collapse before I could escape, that the
heavens would fall upon my head. But nothing happened.
The heavens do not fall for such a trifle. Would they have
fallen, I wonder, if I had rendered Kurtz that justice which
was his due? Hadn’t he said he wanted only justice? But I
couldn’t. I could not tell her. It would have been too dark—
too dark altogether....’
Fuck you.
>>7321062
>Conrad said: "Ah… to write French you have to know it. English is so plastic—if you haven't got a word you need you can make it, but to write French you have to be an artist like Anatole France."
>>7322569
What nonsense, good English prose is not easily won and only a handful of men have done so. Conrad is one of my favorite artists, but he isn't one of them.
>>7322567
>It seemed to me that
>the house would collapse before I could escape, that the
>heavens would fall upon my head
Jesus christ, I'm glad I skipped Conrad
>>7322582
Good decision on your part.
>>7322614
>Good decision on your part.
Yeah, I was going to do it, but then I realized I wasn't twelve :/
Was this book really necessary?
>>7322637
It was a necessary social commentary on colonialism
