TY - BOOK ID - 85469064 TI - Heart of darkness AU - Conrad, Joseph AU - Knowles, Owen AU - Simmons, Allan PY - 2018 SN - 1108663168 1108553761 1108653162 1108428894 1108451675 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Europeans KW - Trading posts KW - Degeneration KW - Imperialism KW - Psychological fiction. KW - Fiction KW - Conrad, Joseph, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85469064 AB - '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. ER -