![]() ![]() ![]() is experience pushed a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case." Numerous biographical facts find their way into the novel. As Conrad writes of the novel in his 1917 Introduction, " Heart of Darkness. Forster, who disparaged the very ambiguities that other critics found so interesting, and the African novelist Chinua Achebe, who derided the novel and Conrad as examples of European racism.Ĭonrad voyaged to the Congo in 1890, when he sailed a steamboat up the Congo River just as Marlow does in the novel. Notable exceptions who didn't receive the novel well were the British novelist E. Critics have regarded Heart of Darkness as a work that in several important ways broke many narrative conventions and brought the English novel into the twentieth century. Since its publication in Youth, the novel has fascinated numerous readers and critics, almost all of whom regarded the novel as an important one because of the ways it uses ambiguity and (in Conrad's own words), "foggishness" to dramatize Marlow's perceptions of the horrors he encounters. It was eventually published as a whole in 1902, as the third work in a volume Conrad titled Youth. Heart of Darkness originally appeared serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. ![]()
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