^(SP) Heart of Darkness and the Congo Diary (Penguin Classics)

Conrads Meisterwerk in einer sehr guten Neuauflage. Viele Zusatzinformationen, gewohnt hervorragende Penguin-Qualität.

Horrible el recorte de las hojas.

Spedizione veloce e prodotto come da descrizione. Ho visto che molti si lamentano per come è stampato anche se non capisco il motivo dato che mi sembra un normalissimo libro. Ha una bella introduzione e contenuti aggiuntivi che possono essere utili per chi come me dovrà utilizzarlo per un elaborato. Lo consiglio.

This novel is the masterpiece that people make it to be. In my opinion, this is a novel that will go down teh centuries and will be read and studied hundreds of years from now much like Shakespeare's playsEuropeans were colonizing Africa using the weapons of war that had been advanced in the 19th century. The 19th century had seen weapons advancing from single shot muzzle loading weapons to repeating rifles and machine guns. War theorists could calculate the volume of fire that these weapons could produce and know that it was devastating. However, there were no great European wars and Europeans used these weapons on people who could do little to defined themselves in Africa. This was part of the darkness to which they descend in Africa. They did in Africa what they were capable of and that was far darker than their belief in their own righteousness would admit. That is what Kurtz saw at the end.Twenty years after the publication of 'Heart of Darkness', it was Europe's turn to enter the 20th century wars that would destroy it. They used the 19th century weapons of the machine gun and the wire and killed a generation of young men. They used their ingenuity to overcome these weapons and to devise even more terrible ones to replace them in the slaughter. High cultures descended into mass murder and extermination. This is what the novel is about and this is what the novel portrays so powerfully. It anticipates what the 20th century was about. The descent into a profound darkness and horror.

O Clássico de Conrad.O Collins Classic também. Sempre estive a procura do original escrito na língua inglesa. Finalmente consegui e pude me deleitar com a leitura tão profunda a qual expõe um lado de nosso ser ainda nas sombras.