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BOOK OF A LIFETIME
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080125
Author:Tim Butcher
Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Seldom can an author have achieved his aim for a novel more completely than Joseph Conrad with Heart of Darkness. Conrad once wrote how he hoped to instil enough power in the sombre theme of the book that it would "hang in the air and dwell on the ear after the last note had been struck". Few could argue this is what he did.
More than 100 years after its publication the novel still resonates. Modern film-makers and writers allude to it routinely and some of its contents, like the "the Inner Station", "Mr Kurtz", "The horror! The horror!", are key parts of ...
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