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In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small group of friends about a profoundly disturbing episode in his life where he was employed by a large colonising enterprise to sail a tinpot steamer up a river into the heart of Africa with a view to bringing out an ivory trader who had gone rogue. Conrad biographer Maya Janasoff has argued that while Marlow's descriptions of Africans are crudely racist, the author binds this racist language with "a potentially radical suggestion. What made the difference ...

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, ...

Jim ist ein junger Seemann und erster Offizier auf der Patna, die auf der Reise nach Mekka ist, um Pilger dorthin zu bringen. Als ein Unglück passiert, verlässt die pflichtvergessene Crew das Schiff - auch Jim, der eigentlich an Bord bleiben wollte. Aber das Schiff sinkt nicht, sondern wird in Sicherheit gebracht. Jim muss sich seiner Verantwortung stellen... Ein vielschichtiger, außerordentlich erfolgreicher Roman, dessen Erzähler einmal mehr der geheimnisvolle Charles Marlow ist.