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Heart of Darkness

Writer: Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller
Nov 28, 2024
1 min read

Joseph Conrad, 1899

Date read: 11/28/24 (Thanksgiving)


What a weird novel. First, it is written entirely as a dialog from a character named Marlow. He's telling this story to other sailors. Mostly it is racist tripe about the savages, n----rs, blacks, etc, of the land in which Marlow is travelling (unspecified African nation). Somehow he manages to paint the native people are wrong for attacking the Europeans who are stealing their land and destroying their homes. It is jingoistic for Britain (Conrad was Polish).


I believe the point was to show how at heart everyone is dark, or something. I didn't get it.

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