![]() ![]() Our first narrator is one of these men, presumably a sober, decent citizen. The novella begins on a ship on the Thames, where a company of old sailors, all but one now respectable and professional Londoners, have gathered for a reunion. Instead, we have a frame narrator who records a story told to him by a friend, a febrile recitation of the impossible and the imponderable, of “an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention.” Heart of Darkness signals the end of the linear, realist novel, of the dispassionate fictional investigation of manners and morals, of the calm, steady, and progressive plotting of a life. Seemingly written for the survey course, it fits neatly inside every thematic slot into which academe has carved our cultural history.įirst, we can place the novella in the history of literature. Published in 1899, it bids farewell to one century and inaugurates another. ![]()
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