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Joseph Conrad
1899
Novella
Adventure
Heart of Darkness has two first-person narrators. An unidentified man sets the scene of the story: a group of friends have gathered on a yacht on the River Thames, waiting for the tide to turn so they can head to sea. Three are identified by their former professions: the Lawyer, the Accountant, and the Director of Companies. Only Marlow is named. His account, a retrospective of his time in Africa, dominates the narrative. Marlow's tale is framed by the commentary of the fifth, unidentified, man.
Heart of Darkness is narrated primarily in the past tense.
The title alludes to the essential concerns of this modernist novella: the mysteries of Africa, "the dark continent," from the colonialist point of view and the equally compelling mysteries of the ignorance, evil, and fear residing in the human heart.
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