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This is one of my favorite books, as a writer. Conrad captures in 100 pages what other writers take 1000 to do. It' a notion that guided me when I wrote Trading Saints for Sinners. I even named my character after Conrad (the way Conrad named his character after Christopher Marlowe. The crft is amazing, even if sometimes the narrator of the story himself is longwinded.
But it's just that too--an imperfect, unreliable narrator to the core. A narrator who is racist, who is flawed, and who makes pret ...more
But it's just that too--an imperfect, unreliable narrator to the core. A narrator who is racist, who is flawed, and who makes pret ...more
Conrad's prose really makes you feel like your entering some primitive jungle of the mind. It's an incredibly atmospheric piece for being only 70 pages long. You can almost feel the dark heart of the jungle sweeping over you as you read it.
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Book which was used as a base for screenplay of Apocalypse now!. Very good fiction on colonialism and its effects on Africans.
Apr 24, 2009
Nina
marked it as to-read
Sep 23, 2009
John J.
marked it as to-read
