Why do people overrate this book so much?
It's like 80 measly pages of some of the least engaging prose I've ever read, with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad" which isn't even true.
because niggers
>>8034365
>with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad"
>>8034386
>frogposting
I don't care how retarded OP is. You're even worse.
>>8034365
learn to read and try again.
If you got nothing out of it but "colonialism is bad" I really hope you're trolling
>>8034365
is this book cover a joke or what?
>>8034494
no, but your life is a joke.
>>8034494
It was commissioned by Penguin books, "heart of Darkness" by Phil Hale
>>8034494
HoD is yet to have an edition with a particularly good cover.
>>8034365
Because the movie is great
>>8034525
Not even gonna lie, I bought that exact edition soley for the cover after hearing mention of the book once. the cover work for the whole Conrad Penguin collection by Hale are all immaculate
>>8034540
I have it too, picked it over two other editions because it has Conrad's Kongo diary in the appendix. I like the cover
>>8034365
>"hurrrr colonialism was bad"
then why did it depict the Africans as being even worse than the Europeans?
>>8034365
>with the overall message of "hurrrr colonialism was bad"
you really did miss the point
to put such a cover on the heart of darkness is pretty much like putting a cover of some buchenwald victim on anne frank's diary
>>8034573
>missing the point
>>8034579
that's the cover which misses the point of the book and is made only to sell it better
>>8034573
>Implying you can sanitize the Belgian Congo
>>8034587
The book isn't about African suffering. It's more so about the kind of suffering that you eventually see in Kurtz, who is depicted suffering on the cover.
Well said OP. The video game is way more engaging and you don't have to use any of that faggy imagination
>>8034573
Why? isn't it a scene from the climax? when Kurtz is crawling in the darkness with a heart full of it
White man's burden
>>8034573
sounds like something Wordsworth would do.
>>8034573
Maybe throw in some dragons on the cover to really bring the fantasy all together.
>>8034633
It was real.... in Otto Franks mind
>>8034610
if it's him, he looks too much like one of the niggers who crawl to die as seen by the narrator at the first part of the novel and it's a superfluous similarity which distorts what this novel about
if it's a random nigger then this cover makes the book sound 'hurrrr colonialism was bad' too much
anyway it's made solely to sell this particular print of it to the fools like >>8034540 who are after graphic depictions of suffering
>>8034551
>>8034649
It's clearly not a black man.
>>8034532
The Folio Society edition is pretty nice, tbqhwyf
>>8034667
Looks like some cutesy YA graphic novel. Probably overpriced as hell too.
>>8034660
and you found out his race how? his skin color on a monochrome image set in darkness can be both black and white, he looks starving too
either way it's a low taste cover
>>8034681
>Monochrome
Then why aren't his pants white too you fucking idiot?
>>8034680
I'd agree with that about the slipcase, but I think the cover is somewhat fitting. And as it's Folio Society, yes, it is of course overpriced.
>>8034687
you are retard if you think that niggers are pitch black
>>8034667
i like it
>>8034681
Africans look black on monochrome imagery.
>>8034696
You are even more retarded if you think niggers are pitch white.
It's Congo-kino, plebs wouldn't understand.
>>8034681
That fact that he looks starving is evidence that the cover image is portraying Kurtz
>>8034735
Read it 2 years ago, not exactly a difficult read
>>8034773
>I found a fantastic scene in Heart of Darkness which I couldn’t believe hadn’t been done before. This is the scene where Kurtz escapes. He’s been under arrest in a steamer, and he escapes in the middle of the night. And he’s crawling on his hands and knees through the bush to get back to his hut and to the native encampment. It was such a fantastic image and nobody had done it, what a beautiful central image. That was the final cover. I did two versions of it but one was clearly better than the other.”
http://www.tripwiremagazine.co.uk/interview/throwback-thursday-phil-hale/
>>8034735
no, I'm in the middle of two other books and I'm probably not even going to read it next. There's a lot of books on my shelf I haven't gotten to yet, have you read every single book you own?
What is the central message of this book? I've not read it and probably won't so please don't reply with "just read it." a really short summary will do
>>8034844
It displays the extreme consequences from when man's irrational inclination for greed goes unimpeded. Moral, mental, and physical destruction ensues for all parties involved.
A lot of it related to Freudian theory which was being developed at the same time. As well as Nietzschean philsophy of course. To this end ,the colonial 'other' represents the repressed elements of the civlised self, that leads to "neuroses".
>>8034844
Within the heart of civilised man lies a repressed "heart of darkness".
>>8034389
>>8034386
Seriously. Post anime girls
>>8034365
>"hurr. Colonialism was bad."
It's not Joseph Conrad's fault you can't look deeper than surface imagery.
