Heart of Darkness-黑暗之心

作者：Joseph Conrad

书名：Heart of Darkness《黑暗之心》

中文简介：《黑暗的心》或译《黑暗之心》（Heart of Darkness）是约瑟夫·康拉德的一部中篇小说，讲述了船员马洛的故事。马洛在行程中，被象牙贸易公司业务员库尔兹的事迹所吸引。这本书探索了人潜在的、固有的黑暗面，涉及了殖民主义、种族主义、野蛮、文明等多个主题。

英文简介：Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his advanture to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in “one of the darkest places on earth.” Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

A reflection on corruptive European colonialism and a journey into the nightmare psyche of one of the corrupted, Heart of Darkness is considered one of the most influential works ever written.