![]() ![]() ![]() The Congo really was a vast immensity of suffering and pain. ![]() For stomach-churning details about the Belgian Congo read King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild.In line with my earlier comments about Conrad, I think its success is partly because, in the horrific facts of the Belgian Congo which he experienced on his 1890 trip up the river, Conrad found external realities which, for once, justified the extremity of his nihilistic worldview and the exorbitance of his style. Heart of Darkness is a masterpiece and as such can be approached from scores of different angles, interpreted in countless ways. ( The Victorian Web has an essay describing the other articles which Heart of Darkness appeared among.) The final text was still divided into three equal sections when it was published in book form in 1902. Heart of Darkness was published in three monthly instalments in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in February, March and April of 1899. ![]()
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