Format:
1 Online-Ressource (lxii, 141 Seiten) :
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ISBN:
978-1-108-55376-6
Content:
'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz's life and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text based on the writer's original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that, for the first time, recovers Conrad's preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-108-42889-7
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-108-45167-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Fiktionale Darstellung
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Bildband
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Fiktionale Darstellung
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Bildband
DOI:
10.1017/9781108553766
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https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108553766
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Author information:
Conrad, Joseph 1857-1924